#like

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ↗

— Don Marquis

#canyon #down #dropping #echo #grand

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. ↗

— Don Marquis

#best #fun #his #how #learned

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. ↗

— Don Marquis

#epigram #like #newspaper #platitude #stroke

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#i think #instance #life #like #own

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#come #i #ideas #into #like

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened. ↗

— Bruno Mars

#bittersweet #everything #feel #had #happen

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. ↗

— Diana Ross

#closed #comes #fingers #grains #hand

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point? ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#cannot #good #i #like #make

If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station? ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#like #playing #point #sound #station