"To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich."

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Ned Rorem

#Ideas Quotes #Magic Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.”
“My rule is always if you keep your basics classic. You can add seasonable and very trendy stuff and always look modern and updated, but if you're questioning something and its expensive, err on the side of classic.”

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“Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.”

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“I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.”
“My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.”
“Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant.”
“After my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment , the sound of my own blood gushing from my neck? That would be the best pleasure to end all pleasure.”
“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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