"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."

-- Charles G. Dawes

#Mediocrity Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.”

Source : Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.391, Simon and Schuster
“I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.”
“My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.”
“Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.”
“I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.”
“I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.”
“Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.”

Source : "Empire of Dreams". Book by Giannina Braschi, 1988.
“All my life I have been a nomad.”

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