"The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds."

-- Alan Hovhaness

#Heaven Quotes #Sound Quotes #Earth Quotes

“It's Good...But No more rush hour driving To start and end your day No more early alarm calls But..much less pay No more back stabbing Or rising to the bait No more phone calls from the boss Asking you to work late But...having to get by On half your hourly rate Now you have all day To sit or doze to stay to go Anywhere you like... ..cheaply You've got less dough Travel around the world Do anything you've desired But do it economically Now that you're retired”
“I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
“Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.”
“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”
“Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.”
“Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism”
“There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.”

Source : Manju Kapur (2010). “A Married Woman”, p.186, Faber & Faber

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