"Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful."

-- Bill Pascrell

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“And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.”
“[Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre.”
“Lord of all Â pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!”
“I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.”

Source : Benjamin Britten, Paul Francis Kildea (2003). “On Music”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA
“Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?”

Source : Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”
“I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal”
“A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.”
“If someone throws you the ball, you don't have to catch it.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1997). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff”, Hyperion

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