"I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky."

-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Ravel Quotes #Masters Quotes

“In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them”
“The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.”
“Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.”
“Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.127, The Overlook Press
“I donâ€™t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. Iâ€™m always writing, but there are times where Iâ€™m just not on my game, and Iâ€™ll use that time to read some new poets, go see some art, walk down to the river and just stare at it, or have a conversation with my sister, or whateverâ€”do whatever it is that I do in my life, hoping that Iâ€™ll get filled up enough. And something will happen, some juggling will happen and boom.”
“The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.”

Source : The Pursuit of Love ch. 1 (1945)
“You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.”
“No security guard can stop a refrigerator falling off a skyscraper.”

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