#pieces

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#away #close #come #doors #dying

In Elizabethan England you will only find small codpieces. Large ones, stuffed with wool and looking like an erect male member, are out of date ↗

— Ian Mortimer

#dating

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#end #finish #long #many #music

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#come #death #exist #grown #her

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing. ↗

— Tertullian

#because #cannot #nothing #out #parcel

I always write the pieces I want to write. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#i #i always #pieces #want #write

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ↗

— Paavo Nurmi

#because #everything #i #i am #mind

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them. ↗

— Peter Wright

#i #interesting #look #most #old

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#art #being #destiny #friend #go

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ↗

— Martin Luther

#apple #even #go #i #knew