"Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance."

-- Thomas Beecham

#Music Quotes #Mind Quotes #Ears Quotes

“I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.”
“I don't want to interpret the pope's words, especially as I am one of those horrible people who fell away from the Roman church after Martin Luther.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I have had friends for years who have never seen my house.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.”

Source : Charles Tilly, Gabriel Ardant, Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Comparative Politics (1975). “The Formation of national States in Western Europe”, Princeton Univ Pr
“I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.”
“Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world while discovering her baby; suddenly somebody appears with two clamps and a pair of scissors in order to cut the cord. This distraction is a dangerous interference with the physiological processes.”
“words same as always same as nothing when nothing is the same”
“From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.”

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