"Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries."

-- Brian Ferneyhough

#Arguing Quotes #Century Quotes #Composer Quotes

“Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.”
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.”
“Its so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.”
“V rolled the Aquafina bottle between his palms. "How long have you wanted to ask me the question? About the gay thing." "For a while." "Afraid of what I'd say?" "Nope, because it doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I'm tight with you whether you like males or females or both." V looked into his best friend's eyes and realizedâ€¦ yeah, Butch wasn't going to judge him. They were cool no matter what. With a curse, V rubbed the center of his chest and blinked. He never cried but he felt as if he could at this moment.”
“Just because someone raps, doesn't mean that's all they can do. A lot of people are multi-talented.”
“Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.”
“This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.”
“Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life”

Source : Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.84, Harper Collins

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