"I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line."

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Evan Parker

#Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes #Lines Quotes

“Canned music is like audible wallpaper.”
“But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.”
“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.”
“What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.”

Source : Kate Mosse (2012). “Citadel”, p.736, Hachette UK
“Cohesion means respectful diversity, which is about much more than the weak-kneed tolerance.”
“Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.”
“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
“I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.”

Source : "Remembering Islamic Feminist Fatema Mernissi". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

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