"All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use."

-- A. E. Housman

#Use Quotes #Humans Quotes

“... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.”
“Architecture is the king or queen of the arts,”
“I think people just like rooting. If they like you, they're going to want to root for you and you're one of theirs. And if they don't like you? It doesn't matter.”
“Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.”
“The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal.”
“The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.”
“What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any other way to keep the teeth sharp and the spirit alive.”
“Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.”

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