"I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit."

-- Herb Alpert

#Taken Quotes #Sound Quotes #Mexico Quotes

“If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.”
“To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.”
“By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.”
“Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.”
“Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."”
“Don't be afraid of making an ***** of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.”
“Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.”

Source : John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.109, Wesleyan University Press
“What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?”

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