#ling

I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#actually #artists #company #i #invested

The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#easily #factor #following #know #makes

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#beliefs #each #ever #everything #few

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#amendment #anything #books #business #films

Especially if it's a wild animal, I find the readers are intrigued. And if your reader's intrigued right away, you've won half the battle of telling a story." ↗

— Yann Martel

#away #battle #especially #find #half

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. ↗

— Yann Martel

#cling #faith #fanatics #go #let go

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. ↗

— Yann Martel

#array #big #big cities #cities #endless

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. ↗

— Jose Marti

#despite #down #fair #hills #hinder

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#concrete #feelings #most #our #representation