"Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music."

-- Luciano Berio

#Music Quotes #Listening Quotes #Intention Quotes

“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
“I don't work with a stylist.”
“Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.”

Source : "Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins" by Dirk Johnson, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2011.
“I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.”
“There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.”
“Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.”
“The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.”
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”

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