"This Cruel Age has deflected me..."

-- Anna Akhmatova

“Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.”

Source : Charles Fenno Hoffman (1873). “The Poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman”, p.195
“Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.”
“LIVE for LIFE, but let live everybody”

Source : Song: Save the Children, Album: What's Going On, 1971
“The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
“You're worth what you're worth”
“George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.”
“The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.”
“Better to mock the game than to play and lose.”

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