"Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal."

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“I think it's important to find somebody who you trust, who has the same vision. If I were to do that myself, and not trust anybody to do it for me or with me, I would have to spend as much time as I have learning to make music on making music videos.”
“I belong to the initiators of the... and we had repeatedly also asked the dismantling of the SS-20 but we did not connect them - that was the difference. We didn't connect them because we felt that this was a step taken, an unnecessary step by the American side and added to by the NATO member countries.”
“On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.”
“None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.”
“The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.”
“Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.”
“I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.”

Source : Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.288, Cambridge University Press
“Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.”

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