"Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it."

-- Karlheinz Stockhausen

#Musician Quotes #Encounters Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.”

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”
“Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.”
“But when did you see her, talk to me? When did you see her go into the cave? Why did you threaten to strike a spirit? You still don't understand, do you? You acknowledged her, Broud, she has beaten you. You did everything you could to her, you even cursed her. She's dead, and still she won. She was a woman, and she had more courage than you, Broud, more determination, more self-control. She was more man than you are. Ayla should have been the son of my mate.”
“You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.”
“When I became a Christian my confidence grew.”
“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.6, Oxford University Press
“We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.”
“Heading the show very thrilling personally, and an incredibly rare opportunity for growth on many levels in terms of workload and just pure skill. It's been fantastic.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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