“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
From an MTV News video segment. 1995
“I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938) Indian bansuri player
On hearing a performance on a woodwind by Pandit Bhola Nath of Varanasi.
My father's wrestling techniques made my lungs strong: Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
“Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise.”
Charles Mingus (1922–1979) American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
What Is A Jazz Composer? (1971)
Context: Let my children have music! Let them hear live music. Not noise. My children! You do what you want with your own!
Douglas Hofstadter (1945) American professor of cognitive science
and the same holds, of course, for many composers
“The last thing I wanted to do was put politics into my music... because music was my escape.”
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
iTunes interview (released June 2, 2007)
2007, 2008
Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician
One Road to Freedom.
Song lyrics, Fight for Your Mind (1995)
“I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.”
Gillian Flynn book Dark Places
Source: Dark Places
Wesley Willis (1963–2003) American singer-songwriter
Interview with Howard Stern http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPNfSekbTck,
“Bless my enemies, O Lord, even I bless them and do not curse them.”
Nikolaj Velimirović (1880–1956) Serbian bishop and saint
Благослови непријатеље моје, Господе, и ја их благосиљам и не кунем. <br class="br">Prayers by the Lake http://www.sv-luka.org/praylake/index.htm