"What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations."

-- Brian Eno

#Writing Quotes #What Matters Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!”
“Some of the best records are the ones that really affect you the most - they're pure emotion and energy, and it's like you're in that person's brain. It's pretty cool.”
“We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.”
“Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).”

Source : William Maxwell (1989). “The outermost dream: essays and reviews”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.”
“Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?”
“There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.”
“The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.”

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