"If a quick glance back over world history shows us anything, it shows us that war was one of our most universal joys from our earliest beginnings, savored at every possible opportunity and even some quite incomprehensible ones ..."

-- Barbara Holland

#War Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Joy Quotes

“The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.”
“Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.”
“Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.”

Source : "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, pp. 46-47, 1996.
“As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.”
“The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.
“Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.”
“Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.”
“In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of ï¬‚ukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.”

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