"The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds."

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Source : Edgar Wilson Nye's stand-up line, 1888.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
“There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.”
“Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, this pure moving of the bird, there is no time, no space, but only the free doing-being of this very moment -now!”
“I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.”
“Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.”
“Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with that insane communist. And Putin is a little crazy as well.”
“We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.”

Source : "Thinking to Some Purpose". Book by Susan Stebbing, p. 63, 1939.
“It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.”

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