"I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that."

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Source : Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

Joe Louis Walker

#Musical Quotes #Style Quotes #Musical Education Quotes

“Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.”

Source : Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.9, Fordham Univ Press
“If you don't discover God's dreams, you'll either waste your life running in wrong races and crossing wrong finish lines or, like many people, have no finish line at all.”

Source : Dutch Sheets (2012). “Dream: Discovering God's Purpose for Your Life”, p.12, Baker Books
“I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.”
“Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.”
“Everyday I look forward to bringing a few laughs, giving a little advice and making people feel good about themselves.”
“If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion”
“What you praise you increase.”
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”

Source : Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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