"All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute."

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Source : "Fictional character: Antonio Salieri". "Amadeus", 1984.

Peter Shaffer

#God Quotes #Longing Quotes #Mute Quotes

“Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.”
“Learning to play old instruments was a challenge. How do you learn an instrument no one has played in hundreds of years? The ones that are used today, I was adamant not to hear anyone else play that instrument. I want to approach them as a child and on the basis of each instrument. I wanted my voice to come through, not someone else's.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels”
“I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.”
“You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”
“Art is theftâ€) and Igor Stravinsky (â€œLesser artists borrow, great artists stealâ€), Iâ€™ve always stolen from the people I admire â€“ not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites AndrÃ© Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: â€œEverything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
“Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.”

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