"It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere."

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Source : Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

Marya Mannes

#Sound Quotes #Sincere Quotes

“Both [Nikola] Tesla and [Leon] Theremin were preternaturally young. I mean, for a long time Tesla was a young man well into his 70s. And so was Theremin, even though, at the end, he looked pretty old. But he was still doing things that young guys do, beyond the time you'd normally think people should be doing that stuff.”
“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”
“O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!”
“I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.”
“I can shoot pool, and I can play ping-pong. I'm pretty good at those games.”
“Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.”
“I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.”
“The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.”

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