"Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life â€“ as necessary as eating or breathing."

-- Alfred Eisenstaedt

#Breathing Quotes #Buttons Quotes #Eating Quotes

“The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.”
“The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.”
“I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.”
“And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.”
“Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.”
“Confidence is a big part of any sport, but as far as sports psycholgy, I met with one last year before the season, and hell I just felt stupid after that, so I try to stay out of there.”
“Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.”

Source : Letter to Alban Berg, "Anton von Webern" by Malcolm Hayes, (p. 71), 1995.
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

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