"According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value."

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Source : "Haydn, A Documentary Study". Book by Chandler Robbins Landon (p. 88), 1981.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#Criticism Quotes #Principles Quotes #Praise Quotes

“You sit better on a colour that you like”
“I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.”
“religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.”
“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”

Source : Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world.”
“Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions”
“I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.”
“I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.”

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