"It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing."

-- Nitin Sawhney

#Writing Quotes #Talking Quotes #Playing Music Quotes

“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
“It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.”
“It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer”
“Digging back through the events of the past, I found that there have been all sorts of people who had a greater effect on us than our own fathers. Perhaps an adult that we wanted to become like, or someone with such a strong presence that even now, they remain in our hearts - someone who might be referred to as a "father of choice."”
“A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.”
“One of the things I like about publishing is that you don't promote the editor - you promote the book and the author.”
“Never answer a critic, unless he's right.”
“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.”

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