"I write music, itâ€™s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesnâ€™t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music."

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Source : "Testimony". Book edited by Solomon Volkov, p. 196, 1979.

Dmitri Shostakovich

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“I mean the price of our technology may very well end up being our humanity, so I think you got to have that balance. Personally I try to do one for one if I can. Do a movie, do a play, do a movie, do a play - while at the same time writing and being in that cycle.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I have 10 brothers and sisters.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When confronted with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible. Time is energy. The longer the brain spends performing some calculation, the more energy it consumes. Considering the brain runs on about 40 watts of power (a lightbulb!), it doesn't have a lot of energy to spare.”

Source : Gregory Berns (2010). “Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently”, p.7, Harvard Business Press
“I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.”
“A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.”
“I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.”
“I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.”
“Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.”

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