#kind

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#hear #i #kind #music #myself

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#benefit #bringing #convictions #ideal #irrespective

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#athens #being #cool #croatia #excited

There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people are going to dig it, man. And it rocks hard. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#bon #bon jovi #dig #going #good

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— George Santayana

#creative #mankind #periods #prolific #seldom

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#directing #film #forming #i #into

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#between #bring #compassion #correct #cuba

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ↗

— George Santayana

#art #bands #etc #football #good

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. ↗

— George Santayana

#conventions #courtesy #doubts #far #kind

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. ↗

— George Saunders

#beloved #constant #culture #details #exaltation