"Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round."

-- Jose Bergamin

#Music Quotes #Musician Quotes

“If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.”
“A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.”
“It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.”

Source : "Q&A: Danny Elfman". Interview with Kevin Cassidy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.
“Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.”
“Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.”
“So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.”
“There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.”
“When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.”

Source : "The Book of Military Quotations". Book by Peter G. Tsouras, p. 124, 2005.

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