#w

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#both #came #canon #composers #depended

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#fifty #gives #merit #nature #twenty

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#does #dress #elegance #new #putting

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. ↗

— Iris Chang

#bengali #did #failed #pakistani #rebellion

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#am #answer #anything #change #door

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! ↗

— Coco Chanel

#leaves #love #monotony #other #time

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#always #changes #fashion #feel #grand

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#decides #how #loses #many #someone

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#intense #makes #newness #over #quality

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. ↗

— Iris Chang

#certain #circumstances #dangerous #evil #only