"It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry."

-- Henry James

#Poetry Quotes #Effort Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'”
“From MARS Volume 3 by Fuyumi Soryo: Kira: â€œWhy do you go through all that just to race? I guess asking that is the same thing as asking why I drawâ€¦.probably because Iâ€™m aliveâ€¦.thatâ€™s all there is to it. I sense colors in you. Theyâ€™re strong and beautifulâ€¦.and sad. I wondered what your colors were for a long time. Theyâ€™re the colors of the sunsetâ€¦the blazing shades of a sunset that burn just before the darkness sets in. You said it was nothing, but thereâ€™s no one as alive as you.”
“From some home a jade flute sends dark notes drifting, Scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang. Tonight, if we should hear the willow-breaking song, Who could help but long for the gardens of home?”

Source : Li Po, “Spring Night In Lo-Yang Hearing A Flute”
“What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.”
“If you're wondering where the Lord is, At this very hour, I tell you he's alive and well, With resurrection power!..”

Source : "Song: Sunday's on the Way". 1983.
“The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this. In other words, we are here to love.”
“Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.”
“I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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