"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."

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Source : Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

Jacques Barzun

#Music Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Touring isn't traveling. Everyone should know that. And I would absolutely recommend a month of solo touring - that is, no driver, no merch person, no tour manager - to anyone in the position to do such a thing. But just once. You grow a lot in those situations, like when you spend a Christmas alone (which I also recommend). But, again, only once. That will be enough.”
“There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. â€”MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE”
“I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself. But then on the other hand, the way I do my work, I always try to only completely focus on my work, so when I do my work I'm only interested in my character. So I don't have an idea of what it means for my career. So this is why I don't feel like I need to be discovered, because I feel like even without being discovered, I will be fine.”
“The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“I sleep with my baby blanket, Kiki, that my nana made for me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.”
“I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.”

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