"My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority."

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Source : "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

Gunther Schuller

#Priorities Quotes #Age Quotes #Calling Quotes

“America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.”

Source : "The Great Migration & ‘The Warmth Of Other Suns’: Isabel Wilkerson On The African American Immigrant Story". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.
“To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don't need to explain what they are to each other, they don't need to talk about it; they just are.”
“I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.”

Source : "Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers". Book by Elizabeth Abbott (p. 103), 1988.
“We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.”
“In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.”
“Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.”
“You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process.”

Source : "Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Welcome To The Machine". Interview with Jewly Hight, americansongwriter.com. November 04, 2009.
“...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative...”

Source : "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921.

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