"I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music."

-- Leo Ornstein

#Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see.”
“The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you and then kinda forget the words. Just imagine how you felt when you heard it, if it was one of your songs. If it became one of your songs. If it meant whatever it meant for you and as soon as you see the visual, you get a rapid eye movement relationship with the song instead of an imaginative one. I think that can be dangerous because I don't think I'd want to be listening to a song on the radio and thinking about the video. Whatever that one interpretation was”
“I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.”
“I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed itâ€”His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 16, 2016
“Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.”

Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”
“When you put someone down all the time, eventually they stop listening to the sensible stuff.”
“Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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