R. Murray Schafer Quotes
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I work hard and support myself.
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.
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If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
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Music isn`t for the eyes, it`s for the ears.
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I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
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I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.
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There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
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Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
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Eyes never see, Ears never hear, when you are emotional
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If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.
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I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.
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I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
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All women are lips, nothing but lips.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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We cannot close our ears; we have no ear lids!
