"As regards the presentation of musical ideas, obviously rules of order soon appeared. Such rules of order have existed since music has existed and since musical ideas have been presented... So we shall try to put our finger on the laws that must be at the bottom of this..."

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Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

Anton Webern

#Order Quotes #Law Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick James from Jan 26, 2012
“The visualization of my films is always very important to me and I work very closely with my cinematographers. I've never had the same cinematographer twice now that I think about it. I don't know why that is. Everyone is always busy. They do three or four films a year. It's vital to me.”
“Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . . . The law is humane and also unsentimental. It recognizes that some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.”
“All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.”
“The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.”

Source : Jack Weatherford (2009). “The History of Money”, p.246, Crown Business
“No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.”
“I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop.”
“I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.”

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