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Richard Meale

"In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important to get hold of what it is that lies between that person as a person, and the things which they're producing on the paper. I don't know whether I see things in too complex a fashion, but often people will do things which are not actually their nature, but will do things because they think that's what they should do."

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Richard Meale

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“Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.”
“Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.”
“Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.”
“We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.”
“If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members”
“When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.”
“The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind”

Source : Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.791, Univ of California Press
“For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.”

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