#phony

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it. ↗

— Vivian Stanshall

#being different #being myself #desperate #different #gang

The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#angeles #away #back #back door #children

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ↗

— Colin Henry Wilson

#instruments #parts #play #stage #stage play

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#hollywood #hope #life #matter #phony

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#feel #i #music #people #physically

Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if you've never retreated to the solitude of a dark room and listened to Beethoven's Ninth from start to finish, you know nothing. For music is a transcendental exploration of human emotion and experience, the very fabric of life in its purest form. And the Ninth our greatest musical achievement. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#classical-music #joy #life #music #symphony

A visible shiver ran through Arthur. "Can you imagine letting him touch you? Be like kissing a snake that'd been dipped in snot." "Oh, now there's a mental image." Eric wrinkled his nose. "You have such a talent for description. ↗

— Cecilia Ryan

#imagination