"All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work."

-- George Gershwin

#Writing Quotes #Symphony Quotes #People Quotes

“I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.”
“Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.”
“What separates the winners from the losers is that winners are able to handle problems and crises that they never imagined would occur. You hit the floor, but what counts is how fast you can get up and regroup. Failure is simply part of the equation.”
“He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.”
“Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.”

Source : "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.
“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.”
“I personally think the downside of being able to change into anything is the fear that you don't know who you really are.”
“One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.”

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