#ld

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#committee #get #idea #kill #want

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.' ↗

— Jim Kolbe

#congress #congressman #expert #gay #happens

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

#biggest #bum #guess #i #know

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#beyond #could #forgive #form #grooves

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. ↗

— Susan Lieberman

#confusing #confusion #counter #define #family

I don't use old music. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#music #old #old music #use

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#either #going #i #i think #important

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid. ↗

— Robert Moog

#building #electronic #had #i #instruments

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#against #doing #his #interests #keep

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#hold #past #people #right #road