Arvo Part Quotes

#1. People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

Gavin Bryars

#2. He who is deaf to wisdom is blind to good.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

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#4. It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Mark Twain

#5. A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.

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#6. The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

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#7. this is my landlord, Krook

Charles Dickens

#8. Nobody is ever able to value true love.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

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#10. Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

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#11. I am a fan of whatever makes me laugh my ass off. If it happens to be a Jew joke, then it's a Jew joke.

Alex Borstein

#12. You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free
you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.

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#13. All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good.

Michael Connelly

#14. This house has endured three of my Dad's four wives, and so over the last few decades it's been a home-size mood ring, changing to the styles and temperaments of its female inhabitants.

Matthew Norman

#15. Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave
no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#16. Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

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