#wit

Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#beautiful #blue #brings #emotion #everyone

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. ↗

— Lope de Vega

#dozen #envy #few #flowers #garden

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. ↗

— Terry Riley

#anything #contribution #essentially #ingredient #into

I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired. ↗

— Terry Riley

#get #hours #i #just #long

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. ↗

— Terry Riley

#anything #contribution #essentially #ingredient #into

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs. ↗

— Francesca da Rimini

#beauty #deeper #features #search #signs

The only journey is the one within. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#only #within

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#desert #elements #hours #i #into

There's no abiding success without commitment. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#success #without