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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”
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“It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a conceptual, directorial conversation about what you're trying to achieve in a theme and then trust your composer to go ahead and do that.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.”
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“Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?”
Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2008). “Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters”
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“Newness hath an evanescent beauty.”
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“Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.”
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“What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.”
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“Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.”
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“Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.”
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“Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.”
Source : "Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard, 2000.
