"Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer."

-- John Ruskin

#Music Quotes #Upset Quotes #Sound Quotes

“When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.”
“I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.”
“I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect. Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.”
“I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.”
“The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.”

Source : Vikas Swarup (2008). “Q & A: A Novel”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“New Testament Christians did not witness because they had to but because they could not help it.”
“Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.”
“The writerâ€™s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think thatâ€™s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.”

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