While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.
— Jonah Lehrer
Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
— Laurie Anderson
To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!
— Louis Armstrong
If you can't change it don't worry about it.
— David Barrett
Be patient with yourself and take heart. Your self-confidence will grow if you seek challenges and worry less about the initial insecurity.
— Wendy Lustbader
Early railway journeys took him to Ceylon, Thailand, and Burma; he would later describe his wanderlust as the "peripatetics of a Jewish prince". — VO Blum
The publishing world is very timid. Readers are much braver. — Kiran Desai
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles. — Agnes Varda
A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it. — Ben Marcus
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching. — Thomas P. Campbell
I decided to run for governor because I got mad ... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people. — Jesse Ventura
Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. — William Shakespeare
That history almost always repeats itself. And it is almost always written by men. — Ally Carter
