Quotes About The Magic Flute

#1. Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

Simon McBurney

#2. 'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

Simon McBurney

#3. [Forster] quotes approvingly from this discussion, from The Magic Flute [by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson]
"Lord Buddha was your gospel true?"
"True and False."
"What was true in it?"
"Selflessness and Love."
"What false?"
"Flight from Life.

Zadie Smith

#4. My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

Simon McBurney

#5. Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

Joan Halifax

#6. If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.

Tom Ford

#7. To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.

Spencer W. Kimball

#8. If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.

Joshua Jackson

#9. In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with care.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain ... only straw.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know ... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking ... don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.

L. Frank Baum

#11. Starships are all work and no fun.

Charles Stross

#12. Behind my smile is a hurting heart.
Behind my laugh, I'm falling apart.
Look closely at me and you will see,
the girl I am
...isn't me

Unknown

#13. This that is tormented and very tired,
tortured with restraints like a madman,
this heart.

Rumi

#14. If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

Lloyd Kaufman

#15. Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

Joyce Meyer

#16. Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will.

Todd Stocker

#17. Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

Richard Wright