Elford Quotes & Sayings

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul — Lawrence Durrell

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from. — Ronnie Montrose

From the point of view of pure logic or philosophy, there will often be a dialectical tension between two concepts.
For example ...
If I reflect on the concept of 'being,' I will be obliged to introduce the opposite concept, that of 'nothing.' You can't reflect on your existence without immediately realizing that you won't always exist. The tension between 'being' and 'nothing' becomes resolved in the concept of 'becoming.' Because if something is in the process of becoming, it both is and is not. — Jostein Gaarder

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal. — Hedy Lamarr

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music. — Leo Ornstein

When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it. — Charles Fleischer

There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable. — Roopleen

Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me. — Gary Peters

Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice. — R.N. Prasher