"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

-- Laurence J. Peter

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Encouraging Quotes

“There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.”
“What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?”
“I had to learn, because as an artist myself, an artist owns that right to protect their interest of how they want to roll their project out. It's just important to give them that opportunity to roll it out the way they want to.”
“I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.”
“I went into the house. I put on Jimi Hendrix's 'Red House' at full volume, filled the glass to the brim with rum, without ice, and went back to the terrace. To gaze at the night and the dark sea and the night.”
“As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.”
“And because there is something they canâ€™t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they canâ€™t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and theyâ€™re scared.”
“The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.”

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