"As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them."

-- Alexander Borodin

#People Quotes #Relaxation Quotes #Musical Quotes

“I don't think people should do anything to be popular. But maybe within reason they can step out of their comfort zones and do things to be more 'accessible'. Like taking drugs or drinking heavily to be cool.”

Source : "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.
“To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.”
“Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.”
“Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and itâ€™s not necessarily everyoneâ€™s place to come to Australia.”

Source : Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.
“I'm not living large; I just want to live comfortably. I wanna have financial stability that is unshakable.”
“the Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are!”
“That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.”
“The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.”

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