#cho

We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#also #binary #choices #coded #depending

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#cause #convincingly #each #enough #everyone

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#best #classical #classical music #does #i

I walk where I choose to walk. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#i #walk #where

I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it. ↗

— William M. Thomas

#go #graduated #high #high school #i

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#acts #deals #experiencing #life #make

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. ↗

— David Amram

#bach #being #chorale #four #going

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles. ↗

— Mary Antin

#children #even #had #hundred #jewish

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice? ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#makes #nobody #perfect #practice #practice makes

I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#buddies #day #end #go #i