"Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity."

-- Michael Hersch

#Issues Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Concerts Quotes

“Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.”

Source : 1997 On the day before the Kensington and Chelsea Conservatives chose Alan Clark as their parliamentary candidate. In the Daily Mail, 26 Jan.
“Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.”

Source : Mia Couto, David Brookshaw (2006). “Sleepwalking Land”, p.39, Profile Books
“If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.”
“The minority must have involvement in society. You can have different cultural practices that you accept. But if you are going to adopt democracy in government, then the government itself must allow the minority to be heard.”

Source : Interview with Rami Eljundi, World Internet News, April 26, 2006.
“If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.”

Source : Christopher Dawson, Robert Royal (2009). “Enquiries Into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.260, CUA Press
“How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
“Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A fortress is of no use to cowards.”

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