"Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work."

-- Meredith Monk

#Past Quotes #Trying Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue.”
“On the plane the other day, there was man who was wearing a tank top, shorts and Birkenstocks - and I don't think that's acceptable. First class should have a f - ing dress code. It's not about money. It's about education. When you build an environment where people can study well, they'll work better. If you teach people to dress correctly, to take personal hygiene seriously, when we teach them about culture, they will be greater.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.”
“A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.”

Source : Alec Guinness (1996). “Blessings in disguise”
“I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.”
“I begin by not photographing.”

Source : "Jeff Wall works the crowds and critics" by Christine Finn, www.wired.com. December 11, 2007.
“The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.”
“I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.”

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