Aleatoric Music Quotes & Sayings

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure. — C.S. Lewis

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots. — Paula Hawkins

The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission;he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality. — Arthur Koestler

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated. — Ivanka Trump

I should go into advertising or public relations because if there is someone or something I like, I will promote it like it's the cure for whatever ailment is in your life. If I love you, I want you to love what I love. Consider yourself smitten or else, suffer hearing me talk about it nonstop ... until you also love it. — Katie Kiesler

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work. — Nora Roberts

Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds. — George Hickenlooper

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher. — Nancy Holmes

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people. — Alice Munro

When i see a speck of light in the darkness, i realize that a little is enough, always enough — Afriani L. Simanjuntak

We need to pray for our brethren around the world. — Monica Johnson