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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#general #instead #love #much #music

I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#doing #hardly #hope #i #interviews

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#always #clear #common #death #ends

I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future. ↗

— Jim Gibbons

#defend #freedom #future #god #i

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#classic #conductor #conductors #eliminates #him

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry! ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#cavalry #chance #deep #defended #entrenched

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle. ↗

— Philip Gibbs

#any #battle #did #engaged #forces

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#before #believe #better #better off #book

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#bored #fun #head #make #monotonous

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#hard #hard work #intuition #mostly #part