"A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?"

-- Margaret Heffernan

#Thinking Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Partners Quotes

“Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.”
“No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't”
“The last word always belongs to the audience... that blessed connection... that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand there is no way of ever knowing when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made. The promise is there, the hope is there, but no certainty whatsoever. Which is, I suppose, the attraction. That connection, when it happens, is magic. When it doesn't... Turn out the lights.”

Source : "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".
“On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.”
“Punishment is the root of violence on our planet.”
“Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Maybe all crows were just creepy.”
“The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.”

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