"New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky."

-- Duke Ellington

#Hell Quotes #Stravinsky Quotes

“Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.”
“Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.”
“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”
“There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”
“The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.”
“I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.”
“As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.”
“The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.”

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