"I feel very free and very happy to be a composer."

-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Composer Quotes #Very Happy Quotes #Feels Quotes

“The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.”
“My top three personal best-dressed list: Lea Michele. I think she really knows how to dress. Blake Lively is great. And Rihanna. I really respect how bold and out-there she is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”
“The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microcosm, the heart of the state; from him all power arises and all grace stems.”

Source : William Harvey (1957). “Movement of the heart and blood in animals: an anatomical essay”
“What is it that drives us outward to the stars above and to the shores below? Is it the security of knowing what's there? Or is it the adventure of finding it?”
“Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.”
“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”

Source : 'Political Essays' (1819) '"The Times" Newspaper'

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