"The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart."

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Gioachino Rossini

#Heart Quotes #Generations Quotes #Common Quotes

“When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!”
“You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”
“I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.”
“Sameness is what marketers want us to want.”

Source : Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.211, Simon and Schuster
“We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.”
“We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!”
“I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.”

Source : "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.
“You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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