Quotes About John Simpson Kirkpatrick

#1. I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

Heber J. Grant

#2. False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

Frederick William Robertson

#3. Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

Sextus Propertius

#4. When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

Billy Eckstine

#5. When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

William Of Ockham

#6. A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Susan Sontag

#7. As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

Vikram Seth