Bacewicz Composer Quotes & Sayings

Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who is in love with either/or. — Margaret Atwood

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling. — Barbara Abercrombie

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human. — Paul McCartney

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. — Miles Davis

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft. — Octavia E. Butler

The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify [God]. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed? — Jonathan Edwards

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance. — Maaza Mengiste

But the huge bowl of the sky remains untracked: no zeppelins, no bombers, no superhuman paratroopers, just the last songbirds returning from their winter homes, and the quicksilver winds of spring transmuting into the heavier, greener breezes of summer. — Anthony Doerr