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“What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.”
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“There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table.”
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“I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.”
Source : "Term 'states' rights' heard anew in election cycle" by Allen G. Breed, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.
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“People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too”
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“For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.”
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“We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.”
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“John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field.”
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“A hero is a man who does what he can.”
Source : Romain Rolland (1914). “John Christopher: Storm and Stress”