"Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man."

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Source : "Music For All Of Us". Book by Leopold Stokowski, 1943.

Leopold Stokowski

#War Quotes #Heart Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.”

Source : "Mistakes were made" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. May 02, 2012.
“Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.”
“It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!”
“Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.”
“Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.”
“Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.”
“Being beautiful is not in the way you dress nor on the pigments you put in your face. Being beautiful is being simple.All girls are insecure, they may not show it, but they are, every girl believes that they have a 'defect' but honestly, you don't! every girl is beautiful, no matter what she wears, what she looks like, or how her body is. don't worry about that senseless stuff, beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.”
“If you're not in New York, you're camping out.”

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