"Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear."

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Source : FaceBook post by Eric Whitacre from Dec 05, 2013

Eric Whitacre

#Writing Quotes #Needs Quotes

“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”
“It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.”
“As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."”
“Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.”
“Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.”
“I battled with my weight as a teenager, partly because there wasn't the information or conversation about how to live a healthy lifestyle.”
“Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.”
“We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.”

Source : Donald Barthelme (1992). “The teachings of Don B.: satires, parodies, fables, illustrated stories, and plays of Donald Barthelme”

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