John Logan quotes

“Music is the medicine of the mind.”
-- John Logan

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“You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.”
-- John Logan

Source : John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.13, Oberon Books

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“When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.”
-- John Logan

Source : John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.34, Oberon Books

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“Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.”
-- John Logan

Source : James Grahame, John Logan (1823). “The poems of James Grahame, John Logan, and William Falconer”, p.153

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“Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.”

“Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.”

“The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.”

Source : "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”

“The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.”

“As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.”

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”

“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press