"If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music]."

-- Michael Tilson Thomas

#Alive Quotes #Needs Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.”
“I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.”
“I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.”
“It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.”
“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.”
“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
“Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.”
“The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.”

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