"Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in their ideas, or whose every bar is sacred and must not be cut or altered."

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Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#Teacher Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.”
“The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.”
“Does anyone suppose that, in real life, answers to any of the great questions that worry us today are going to come out of homogeneous settlements?”
“We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.”
“I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.”
“I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.”
“Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.”

Source : Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.88, Reaktion Books

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