"Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was 16 and spent most of his life in Vienna. He's the key composer between classic music and romantic music. Beethoven was the beginning of romantic music, and he was the teacher of Beethoven and Schubert."

-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Teacher Quotes #Keys Quotes #Vienna Quotes

“I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.”
“The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets him skate however briefly on the mystery, her presence luminous on the ordinary and the grand. Like the odor at night in Pittsburghâ€™s empty streets after summer rain on maples and sycamore.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Dance Most of All: Poems”, p.23, Knopf
“Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.18
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
“It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas”
“In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.”
“We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2014.
“Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.”

Source : Samuel Dash (2004). “The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft”, p.152, Rutgers University Press

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