"When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true."

-- Montserrat Caballe

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“Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?”
“Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.”
“We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.”
“Many other artists who sing about hope think that it is something every single person carries within himself. I'm not so sure if that's true. For me, hope is the little light guiding you the way, which reminds you that life does have a sense, that you have goals. To believe in that is often more easily said than done.”
“...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.”
“Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.”
“Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.”

Source : "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.
“All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle â€” keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.”

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