Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
Joan Baez
Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.
Joan Baez
During the ballad
years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling
in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
Joan Baez
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
Joan Baez
I came to a nonviolence position through a gradual process.
Joan Baez
I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and
working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
Joan Baez
I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
Joan Baez
I have never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
Joan Baez
I see a young man playing Plaisir d'Amour
on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was
already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.
Joan Baez
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
Joan Baez
I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations—some large and some small.
Joan Baez
I think the term non-violent
is much more positive, since it says we are non-violent against other people.
Joan Baez
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
Joan Baez
I'm not a folksinger. I'm a journalist's nightmare.
Joan Baez
I've never been an optimist.
Joan Baez
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
Joan Baez
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez
If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
Joan Baez
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.
Joan Baez
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
Joan Baez
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with
the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez
Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
Joan Baez
My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?
Joan Baez
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
Joan Baez
Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
Joan Baez
Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
Joan Baez
Peace might sell, but who's buying?
Joan Baez
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
Joan Baez
Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.
Joan Baez
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
Joan Baez
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery...
Joan Baez
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.
Joan Baez
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.
Joan Baez
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you
will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
Joan Baez
The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change.
Joan Baez
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez
That's all nonviolence is—organized love.
Joan Baez
War is obsolete. It's just that men haven't evolved to that knowledge yet.
Joan Baez
We all have to be told to grow up at different times in our lives. It happens to me still.
Joan Baez
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much
came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
Joan Baez
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
Joan Baez
A Beethoven symphony
or a Schubert sonata is not a hammock; it is a workout.
On the intellectual and emotional demands of classical music.
Daniel Barenboim
A musician cannot communicate if he is not in a state of ecstasy.
Everything is Connected (2008)
Daniel Barenboim
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour
in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
Daniel Barenboim
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
Daniel Barenboim
Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the
Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.
Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven was a
deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned
with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven's importance in music has been
principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven's music
tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim
Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
Daniel Barenboim
Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
Daniel Barenboim
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Paraphrasing C.S. Lewis in discussions on music's moral role.
Daniel Barenboim
Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
Daniel Barenboim
Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
Daniel Barenboim
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
Every note is a lifetime for itself.
Daniel Barenboim
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
Daniel Barenboim
For me, music is a way of thinking. Sound is a means of relating to the world.
BBC Reith Lectures (2006)
Daniel Barenboim
For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and
early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music,
which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.
Daniel Barenboim
I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
Daniel Barenboim
I am permanently relaxed.
Daniel Barenboim
I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have
a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
Daniel Barenboim
I believe education is much more important than we assume.
Daniel Barenboim
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
Daniel Barenboim
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
Daniel Barenboim
I cannot separate the musical, intellectual, and spiritual.
On the holistic nature of musical interpretation.
Daniel Barenboim
I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
Daniel Barenboim
I don't like possessions.
Daniel Barenboim
I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
Daniel Barenboim
I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.
Daniel Barenboim
I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
Daniel Barenboim
I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to
realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
Daniel Barenboim
I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
Daniel Barenboim
I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
Daniel Barenboim
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
Daniel Barenboim
I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
Daniel Barenboim
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
Daniel Barenboim
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and
ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
Daniel Barenboim
I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
Daniel Barenboim
I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive
way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.
Daniel Barenboim
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim
I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.
Daniel Barenboim
I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday
to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
Daniel Barenboim
I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera
ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
Daniel Barenboim
I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
Daniel Barenboim
I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
Daniel Barenboim
If you practice slowly, you forget slowly. If you practice quickly, you forget quickly.
Advice to young musicians on disciplined practice.
Daniel Barenboim
In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
Daniel Barenboim
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played
the Beethoven Sonatas in.
Daniel Barenboim
In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at that level, we have
to keep on adding energy, or otherwise, the object falls to the ground. It's exactly the same thing with the sound.
Daniel Barenboim
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
Daniel Barenboim
Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic
bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Daniel Barenboim
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a
composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Daniel Barenboim
It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was
the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing
the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted
to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
Daniel Barenboim
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism,
and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
Daniel Barenboim
Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
Daniel Barenboim
More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
Daniel Barenboim
Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's
music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
Daniel Barenboim
Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day
in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
Daniel Barenboim
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
Daniel Barenboim
Music is a gift we should cherish and share with others.
Daniel Barenboim
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim
Music is everything at the same time. Music never laughs or smiles, music never cries, it always smiles and cries at the same time.
Daniel Barenboim
Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life — one that requires much professionalism.
Daniel Barenboim
Music is the art of the invisible, the art of that which cannot be seen or touched.
Reflecting on music's intangible power.
Daniel Barenboim
Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
Daniel Barenboim
Music makes time audible and palpable. It allows us to feel time.
Music Quickens Time (2008)
Daniel Barenboim
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
Daniel Barenboim
No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
Daniel Barenboim
Not only has the eye taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
Daniel Barenboim
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all
sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
Daniel Barenboim
Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are
Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
Daniel Barenboim
On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he
was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
Daniel Barenboim
Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, I will
not concentrate on this note.
You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
Daniel Barenboim
People need to have enough to eat and have work and money. But there are other things that are important.
Daniel Barenboim
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
Daniel Barenboim
Silence is the basis of music. Without silence, there is no rhythm, no harmony, no music.
Emphasizing the importance of silence in performance.
Daniel Barenboim
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright
sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
Daniel Barenboim
The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
Daniel Barenboim
The conductor must make his eyes the ears of the orchestra.
On the role of non-verbal communication in conducting.
Daniel Barenboim
The difference between a good musician and a great one is not accuracy but imagination.
From a masterclass discussion.
Daniel Barenboim
The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
Daniel Barenboim
The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.
Daniel Barenboim
The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran -
because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.
Daniel Barenboim
The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
Daniel Barenboim
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely
wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
Daniel Barenboim
The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which
viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
Daniel Barenboim
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is a project against ignorance.
On his Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra fostering dialogue.
Daniel Barenboim
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end, and there is a silence in the middle.
Daniel Barenboim
There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality of their own. The
Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of them, and I think it very important to recognize and respect that character.
Daniel Barenboim
There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
Daniel Barenboim
There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
Daniel Barenboim
There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many
decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is
why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
Daniel Barenboim
To be a musician is not a profession. It is a way of life.
From interviews on dedication to art.
Daniel Barenboim
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
Daniel Barenboim
To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
Daniel Barenboim
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
Daniel Barenboim
Tristan
is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It
remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.
Daniel Barenboim
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are
blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
Daniel Barenboim
Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its
opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
Daniel Barenboim
We must learn to listen before we can play.
Stressing the importance of attentive listening in music.
Daniel Barenboim
We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise,
it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
Daniel Barenboim
We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
Daniel Barenboim
What the world is saying to us human beings is, Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.
And that's what musicians do every day.
Daniel Barenboim
When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
Daniel Barenboim
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
Daniel Barenboim
When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics.
Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
Daniel Barenboim
When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.
Daniel Barenboim
When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
Daniel Barenboim
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
Daniel Barenboim
You can’t make music alone. Even a solo pianist needs the piano, the composer, the audience.
On collaboration and interconnectedness.
Daniel Barenboim
You don't go out and play Beethoven's
Opus 111
without having rethought about it every time you play.
Daniel Barenboim
You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.
Daniel Barenboim
You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then
really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
Daniel Barenboim
You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
Daniel Barenboim
I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song
and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
Lynda Barry
I swear they're real!
Victoria Beckham
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Diaries and conversation books (1810s–1820s).
Ludwig van Beethoven
A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a
mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.
Letter to Franz Gerhard Wegeler (November 16, 1801).
Ludwig van Beethoven
Applaud, friends, the comedy is over.
Last words (March 26, 1827).
Ludwig van Beethoven
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Letter to Emilie M. (often identified as Emilie von Reichenbach) (July 17, 1812).
Ludwig van Beethoven
I carry my thoughts within me long... before writing them down.
Letter to Louis Schlosser (1823). On his compositional process.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate
notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Letter to Franz Gerhard Wegeler (November 16, 1801).
Ludwig van Beethoven
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say
to people, I am deaf.
If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
Heiligenstadt Testament (1802).
Ludwig van Beethoven
I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another.
As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.
Letter to Franz Gerhard Wegeler (November 16, 1801).
Ludwig van Beethoven
I will seize fate by the throat...
Letter to Franz Gerhard Wegeler (November 16, 1801).
Ludwig van Beethoven
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall not bend or crush me completely.
Written as deafness worsened.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
Letter to Bettina von Arnim (née Brentano) (1810).
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Letter to Bettina von Arnim (née Brentano) (1810).
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life... a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Letter to Bettina von Arnim (née Brentano) (1810).
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Letter to Bettina von Arnim (née Brentano) (1810).
Ludwig van Beethoven
Never to break one's word is the royal road to Heaven.
Notebook entry (1823). Emphasizing integrity.
Ludwig van Beethoven
O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do
not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that
held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
Heiligenstadt Testament (1802).
Ludwig van Beethoven
Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet
as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!
Letter to Franz Gerhard Wegeler (November 16, 1801).
Ludwig van Beethoven
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Conversation book (1820). A humorous remark to his friend Karl Holz.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Letter to his nephew Karl (1816). From a series of moral admonitions.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he
may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Heiligenstadt Testament (1802).
Ludwig van Beethoven
The world is a king... true art is selfish and perverse.
Letter to Franz Brentano (February 10, 1811).
Ludwig van Beethoven
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As
things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
Letter to Franz Brentano (March, 1822).
Ludwig van Beethoven
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Letter to Archduke Rudolph (1815). On resilience.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Heiligenstadt Testament (1802).
Ludwig van Beethoven
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself.
To Prince Lichnowsky (1806). Asserting self-made genius over aristocratic privilege.
Ludwig van Beethoven
What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
Conversation with Louis Schlösser (1822).
Ludwig van Beethoven
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there
is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven
When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising
that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.
Letter to Karl Amenda (July 1, 1801).
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Ah, that tastes nice. Thank you.
Johannes Brahms
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get
anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
Garth Brooks
My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was
serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
Kate Bush
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar;
I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
George Byron
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