"In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill."

-- Robert Shaw

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“Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.”

Source : US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.
“The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.”

Source : Greil Marcus (2013). “The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years”, p.56, PublicAffairs
“I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.”
“Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”
“The bagel is a lonely roll to eat all by yourself because in order for the true taste to come out you need your family. One to cut the bagels, one to toast them, one to put on the cream cheese and the lox, one to put them on the table and one to supervise.”
“Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.”
“Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.”
“History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.”

Source : Albert Pollard (2018). “Henry viii”, p.199, Ozymandias Press

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