Boris Sidis Quotes
Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.
Boris Sidis
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I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.
Oliver Sim
The xx
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
Gary Oldman
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Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
Felix Mendelssohn
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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
Gary Numan
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
Indira Gandhi
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The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious, is it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
Lin Yutang
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I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.
Ashleigh Murray
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And if you come and see me,you will upset the order.You cannot come and see me,for I set myself apart.But when you come and see me,in California,you cross the border of my heart.
Joanna Newsom
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Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions
William Shakespeare
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I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.
Harry Houdini
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Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.
Boris Sidis