"When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work."

-- Andres Segovia

#Mean Quotes #Musician Quotes #Building Quotes

“Health makes good propaganda.”
“Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.”
“Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.”
“Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.”
“Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.”
“Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.”

Source : "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.
“Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1989). “Blood and Guts in High School”, p.125, Grove Press
“He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.”

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