Partch Quotes

#1. Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

Ann Brashares

#2. Life is too precious to spend it with important people.

Harry Partch

#3. Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

Neal Stephenson

#4. The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

Gloria Steinem

#5. Life is too short to be lived badly.

Marjane Satrapi

#6. The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

Harry Partch

#7. It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."

Tom Felton

#8. Reading is dreaming with open.

YoYo

#9. Our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.

Harry Partch

#11. In every area of our lives we get back what we send out

Marshall Sylver

#12. My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.

Henry Miller

#13. While many conclusions are drawn ... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers ... an ongoing process of discovery.

John Paul Caponigro

#14. Life's too short to spend with important people.

Harry Partch