"Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good."

-- Pablo Picasso

#Giving Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.”
“Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.”

Source : Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble (2008). “Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management: Abridged Edition”, p.366, Oxford University Press
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
“I guess working on 'Mad Men' turned me onto AMC and really got me watching the network, and so with that I got a good idea of the type of show they like to produce.”
“When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.”

Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.
“I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.”

Source : Leni Riefenstahl (1992). “The sieve of time: the memoirs of Leni Riefenstahl”
“There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because it has become such a pop thing. But in rap, there is still a feeling of community. Who are our peers? Rappers.”
“The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.”

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