Erlend Loe Doppler Quotes

#1. Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

Robert Harris

#2. To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,
these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

Joanna Baillie

#3. My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

W. H. Auden

#4. I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

John Philip Sousa

#5. If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

Ibn Taymiyyah

#6. The idea is distributed in space. It isn't only in one part; one part can't express the idea any longer, only the union of parts can completely express the idea. The idea found it necessary to be presented by several parts. After that, there was a rapid flowering of polyphony.

Anton Webern