"I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can."

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Virgil Thomson

#Thank You Quotes #Musical Quotes #Serious Quotes

“Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.”

Source : Julia Hill (2010). “Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods”, p.43, Harper Collins
“Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness.”

Source : Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.13, Routledge
“Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.”
“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.”
“You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.”
“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”
“I like to push myself beyond the limit every now and again.”
“I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest passion is for some form of applied ethics, that leaves me with oodles of possibilities, many of which I have never had the time or opportunity to explore in great depth.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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