"All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago."

-- Peter Warlock

#Yesterday Quotes #Three Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.”
“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard..”
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
“In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong.”
“Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.”
“Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.”
“As busy as I am wherever I am, I...”
“Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.”

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