quotes about Dangerous Ideas

“It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.”

“Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.”

“O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals...”

“A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.”

“You should see me without makeup.”

“I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.”

“In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.”

“Don't question your wife's judgment; look who she married.”

“My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

Source : Samuel Francis Smith, B. F. Edmands (1860). “The psalmist, with music: a manual for the service of sacred song in Baptist congregations and choirs”, p.367

“I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.”