#be

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #echo #echoes #effect #forest

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ↗

— Lindsay Lohan

#appreciate #beauty #confidence #gave #grace

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attacks #clear #events #exploited #now

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ↗

— John Locke

#always #any #because #common #new

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention #beat #engage #exist #lyric

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#been #began #behind #classical #dad

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#educating #i #i think #methods #participation

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. ↗

— John Ensign

#believe #building #community #country #first

Technically, I've been retired for some time now. All I ever do is occasionally write songs for friends, such as one, for a friend who had just turned 80. I wrote a song for him called, The First 80 Years are The Hardest. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#called #ever #first #friend #friends