#cian

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#consciously #create #did #discoverer #discovery

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demons #economists #everything #politicians #possible

I think when you've been a career politician for 34 years you have to run on your record. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#career #i #i think #politician #record

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#certainly #deal #deception #enough #full

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it. ↗

— Juan Cole

#did #flat #flat tax #income #individual

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#critic #emotional #frame #may #mind

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#did #hip #musicians #nothing #other

I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#doing #i #i do #i think #illness

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#called #completely #dancer #her #i

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#called #i #jazz #jazz music #me