Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes
Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
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You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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I've missed a lot of trains in my life, and another one always comes.
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I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
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Whilst in ordinary life every shopkeeper is very well able to distinguish between what somebody professes to be and what he really is, our historians have not yet won even this trivial insight. They take every epoch at its word concerning what it says and imagines about itself.
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From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
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What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one’s life.
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Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.
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We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
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My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.
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The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.
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I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.
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Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.
