"I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence."

-- George Russell

#Music Quotes #Writing Quotes #Self Quotes

“Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.”
“I don't know. Haven't I always been mature?”
“We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.”
“The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the lanuage is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as thought the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.”
“It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.”
“The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.”
“They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.”
“Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize... ...It is essentially practical and passionate.”

Source : Studio International 171, p.280, June 1966.

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