#phonies

The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways. ↗

— Michele Rosenthal

#self-awareness #self-confidence #self-empowerment #trauma #traumatic-epiphonies

Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human. ↗

— E. Nesbit

#humor #phonies #humor

I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#humor #humour #music #symphonies #humor

It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another? ↗

— David Byrne

#attitude #beats #fundamental #hip-hop #i

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#anything #bands #being #big #big bands

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look. ↗

— Otis Williams

#been #career #girl #i #large

Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way. ↗

— Christopher Krovatin

#phonies #life

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#i #i think #own #place #symphonies

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#i #i am #symphonies #way #weren