"Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water."

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Source : Sir Neville Cardus (1966). “The Delights of Music: A Critic's Choice”, London : Gollancz

Neville Cardus

#Water Quotes #Age Quotes #Cocktails Quotes

“surfeits kill more than fasting does ...”

Source : Dorothy Osborne (1914). “The letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”
“The Best way to help the world is to help someone!”
“Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.”
“The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.”
“The best teams play for each other, not with each other”
“The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.”
“Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.”
“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”

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