"The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music."

-- Peter De Vries

#Tubas Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.”
“We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityâ€”judiciously, as you willâ€”we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Source : "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush". Interview with Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.
“You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!”
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.”
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”

Source : "Character Sketches : Or, The Blackboard Mirror" by George Augustus Lofton, (p. 432), 1890.
“Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.”
“When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.”
“Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.”

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