Wanda Landowska Quotes
The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
Quotes to Explore
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
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You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.
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Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
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If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
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The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.
