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I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#happily #i #interest #life #married

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#beautifully #beethoven #composers #days #harmony

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#inspiration #mere #reed #shaken #wind

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#fabulously #hard #leave #notes #superfluous

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#cling #freely #handle #make #melody

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. ↗

— David Brainerd

#god #hope #world #you

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor. ↗

— Peter Facinelli

#butch #called #i #inspiration #kid

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I. ↗

— David Brainerd

#fear god #god #i #mercy #never

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #desire #divine #enjoy #every

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. ↗

— David Brainerd

#endeavour #first #life #practise #resolve