"Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them."

-- Anne McCaffrey

#Music Quotes #Song Quotes #People Quotes

“Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.”
“I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.”
“All things are complete within ourselves.”
“Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.”

Source : Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.195, The Floating Press
“I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy.”

Source : Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
“Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.”
“I have a constant kind of soundtrack going on at all times. I almost always have a song in my head. I'm very musically inclined. It feeds my soul. It definitely helps me get into a mood or get out of a mood. Or inspires a mood. Honestly, it is one of my therapists - cheaper and always available.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“New York is great for people watching and there's a bunch of amazing rooftops.”

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