Sarah Hamatake

“I am whole just as I am. I am defined not by my life experiences but by how I let them affect me and how I handle myself in each situation.”
― Lily Collins, Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me

“Nothing more then nothing can be said.
We make our lives by what we love.
Being American, having been trained to be sentimental, I fought for noises … when the war came along, I decided to use only quiet sounds. There seemed to me to be no truth, no good, in anything big.
Somebody asked Debussy how he wrote music. He said: “I take all the tones there are, leave out he one’s I don’t want, and use all the others”. Satie said: “When I was young, people told me; you’ll see when you’re fifty years old. Now I’m fifty. I’ve seen nothing”.
Slowly as the talk goes on, we are getting nowhere – and that is a pleasure.
It is not irritating to be where one is, it is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep.
All I know about method is that when I’m not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I’m working, it is quit clear I know nothing.”
― John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings

“I'm training my left hand to write, in case I lose the ability in my right. That's gymnastics for the dying.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony: The Memoirs

“But I like listening to any music, including bad music. it's a professional disease, an addiction to notes. The brain finds sustenance in any combination of sounds. It works constantly, performing various composerly operations.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony: The Memoirs