Musicologists Study Quotes & Sayings

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends. — Tonya Harding

To strive for the absolute truth, is to drop yourself and look for life that is happening beyond yourself. — Roshan Sharma

Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. — Tom Robbins

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds. — Maya Angelou

We can be enthused by - yes, that's right, enthused - by the noblest of ideals, but only on condition that we don't have to expend any effort, that we don't have to make any sacrifices, and above all on condition that the ideals can be achieved free, gratis, that we needn't pay anything. Paying is something we really resent; on the other hand, receiving, that's really up our street, and that goes for everything. Let's have every kind of blessing (nothing less will do, it must be every kind) and, whatever happens, let no one tell us what to do on any score, and then we too shall prove that we can be all sweetness and light. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact. — Andrea Bocelli

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success. — Arianna Huffington

Evil is not good's absence but gravity's
everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days. — Geoffrey Hill

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down. — Jack Canfield