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“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
“Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better" now than it used to be, is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn't "improve.”
― How Music Works
― How Music Works
“But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.”
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.”
― Life, the Universe and Everything
― Life, the Universe and Everything
“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”
― Life, the Universe and Everything
― Life, the Universe and Everything
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