"The melody is generally what the piece is all about."

-- Aaron Copland

#Pieces Quotes #Melody Quotes

“I set my phone with motivational quotes to go off on random days and times. Like, 'You're stronger than you think you are.' I'll forget about it, then one will pop up and it'll give me a little boost.”
“Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.”
“For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes are built. Price appreciation aside (and most houses will appreciate, eventually), homeownership is a state of mind. It's your piece of the earth. It's where a family's toes grow roots. It's where the flowers are yours, not God's.”

Source : Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.473, Simon and Schuster
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naÃ¯ve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
“Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.”
“Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.”

Source : "Talking About Aliens with Lizzie Brocheré". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2012.
“Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.”
“How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?”

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