"The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body."

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Source : Richard Powers (2004). “The Time of Our Singing: A Novel”, p.536, Macmillan

Richard Powers

#Use Quotes #Body Quotes #Music Is Quotes

“I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.”
“Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it....”
“Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.”
“Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's social statement. It is somewhat similar to the work of a journalist, just on a different level. This is the kind of cinema I enjoy.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.”
“I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.”
“Really what Brutus and Cassius do by assassinating Caesar, is open up a vacuum into which much more ruthless people run. Julius Caesar is an amazingly contemporary, resonant, politically astute play.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Iâ€™ll give you a theory: Manâ€™s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.”

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