"And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good."

-- Karlheinz Stockhausen

#Mean Quotes #Elements Quotes #Harmony Quotes

“Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.”

Source : Song: Thing Called Love, Album: Nick of Time
“Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.”

Source : Remark about his articles tracing the course of his illness in the NewYorker. Quoted in his obituary in The Scotsman, 29 Jan1996.
“The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.”
“I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.”
“Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.”

Source : Bryan Davis (2012). “Liberator”, p.141, Zondervan
“When I'm at home alone, I run up the stairs naked. It's quite funny.”
“You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.”
“Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.”

Source : Speech in House of Lords, 30 May 1962

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