"It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience."

-- Carlisle Floyd

#Writing Quotes #Sight Quotes #People Quotes

“Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.”
“Pixar has announced Larry the Cable Guy will be starring in Cars 3 thru 6. Howie Mandel will be playing his sidekick, Mopey the Moped.”
“We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 3, 2013
“To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.233, New York Review of Books
“We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one.”
“The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.”
“...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.”

Source : David Brin (2011). “Kil'n People”, p.399, Hachette UK
“We know nothing until intuition agrees.”

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