quotes about Dori

“To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.”

“Seeing is not as simple as looking.”

Source : Clare Farrow, Joseph Kosuth (1994). “A Reinhardt, J Kosuth, F Gonzales-Torres - Symptoms of Interference - Art & Design Profile 34(Paper Only)”, John Wiley & Sons

“I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.

“David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?”

“Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts and scatted on his stage for 20 minutes. After I was done, Maceo's bass player got down on one knee as if he were proposing, took a string off of his bass guitar and coiled it up around my ring finger. He hushed the crowd and said into the microphone, "Wendy, from this day forward you are married to music. You have a gift from God. You must devote your life to using this gift or else you will deprive the world of something so special." I got the chills.”

“The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.”

“I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.”

“Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old”

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”