Semitone In Music Quotes

#1. When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

Lauryn Hill

#2. Our movements through time and space seem somehow trivial compared to a heap of boiled meat in broth, the smell of saffron, garlic, fishbones and Pernod.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. Somehow, miraculously, they forced themselves, told themselves they were going to live. They wrote themselves new lives. Fictions, perhaps, but what did it matter? They had kept the chaos at bay. They had managed to stop cursing the darkness. They'd lit a torch.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#4. The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

Mary McCarthy

#5. Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

Scott Stossel

#6. I don't know what he means, but there's something not clean about a man who sneers at everything.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#7. Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain?

Francois Arago