"Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening."

-- Rumi

#Communication Quotes #Order Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Laws die, books never.”
“Be pleased to look forward, And pleased to look behind, Count today, your 40th, and each birthday With a grateful mind.”
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.”
“Love is something we must have. We must have it because our spirits feed upon it.”
“You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.
“There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman”
“Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.”

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