#ny

What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#away #concert #concert hall #country #formality

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#cannot #fight #his #i #imagine

I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #correct #could #different #different types

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#anymore #matter #me #people #people say

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#any #anymore #enough #good #healthiest

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? ↗

— Thomas Mann

#been #changed #ever #magic #save

It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt. ↗

— Sherwood Smith

#funny

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. ↗

— Horace Mann

#ask #both #find #forget #greatness

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#critics #i #jazz #kenny #most

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#afford #any #between #communication #conflict