"What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is."

-- Vijay Iyer

#Imagination Quotes #Helping Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“...I dabble in causes and effects.”
“I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general. I always had a fascination with that sound. It's a mixture of the idea that something could be going wrong along with the idea of bending constrained, Westernized music out of tune. But because I wasn't copying an idea, and it just came from somewhere inside me, it felt like a birth of something that most people didn't understand at the time.”
“God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.”
“A lot depends on the starting point.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.215, Harvard University Press
“Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.”
“Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!”

Source : Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.334
“Life's too short to sit around and wait.”
“[Bernard Leach] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."”

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