"I don't need words. It's all in the phrasing."

-- Louis Armstrong

#Music Quotes #Needs Quotes

“A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.”
“And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.”

Source : Irving Layton (2012). “A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems”, p.23, McClelland & Stewart
“Although I dont know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.”
“Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.”
“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?”
“I stay out of the sunshine and away from people as much as possible.”
“The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.”
“The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.”

Source : Dr. Shinichi Suzuki (1998). “Shinichi Suzuki: His Speeches and Essays”, p.51, Alfred Music

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