"I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading."

-- Alan Greenspan

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“Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him to be so; it is a problem of attitude to contemporary society and culture in relation to the basic human problem of learning to be human.”

Source : John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.104, University of Washington Press
“I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
“In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell's novel Arctic Rising.”
“It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense....”

Source : Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.76, Routledge
“The idea of equal rights was in the air.”

Source : "The Progress of Fifty Years". Last public speech, to the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.
“People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.”
“There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?”

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