"Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told."

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Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.351, Random House

Colum McCann

#Stories Quotes #Literature Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.”
“When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.”
“It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.”
“I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are â€˜in good taste.â€™ Either you understand it or not.”
“Time the devourer of everything.”
“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”
“I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.”

Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.
“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

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