"For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever."

-- Aaron Copland

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“Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.”
“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.”

Source : Renee Carlino, Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire, Gail McHugh (2014). “Love at First Sight: A Hot Bed Sampler”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.”
“I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done - I don't think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.”
“I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.”
“Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.”
“My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.”

Source : Oscar Micheaux (1994). “The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer”, p.73, U of Nebraska Press
“Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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