Klezmer Music Quotes & Sayings

I've always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit - that the madness that so often accompanies it can be cavalierly dismissed. So I asked the question: Suppose there were an entire subpopulation of extreme geniuses, well beyond anything that would occur naturally. What would that really look like? — Andrew M. Ryan

My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do. — Anna Quindlen

There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world. — Natalie Jeremijenko

Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God's agenda. — Henry Blackaby

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.' — John Zorn

Now, you fuckers," I said as I rolled my head around my shoulders and palmed some knives. "Let me introduce myself. — Jeaniene Frost

soups are the food equivalent of a warm hug — Penny Reid

And I think that when once he had learned the art of arranging his words as he stood upon his legs, and had so mastered his voice as to have obtained the ear of the House, the work of his life was not difficult. — Anthony Trollope

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous. — Daniel Johnston

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. — Stephen Jay Gould

Goodness is the only investment that never fails. — Henry David Thoreau