"I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it."

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Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

Steve Reich

#Writing Quotes #Differences Quotes #People Quotes

“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness - and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
“I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.”
“Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.”
“When shall we live if not now?”

Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.”
“A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.”
“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”

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