A Quotes
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“A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of one's own driven inspiration. One learns to find inspiration rather than waiting for it to come for a visit. I can find inspiration almost anywhere.”
“A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.”
“A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.”
“A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.”
“A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.”
“A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.”
“A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.”
Source: Message from a Stranger: A Novel
“A musical blast! Fun for the whole nuclear family!”
“A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.”
“A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.”
“A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.”
“A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either”
“A musical profit outweighs a financial loss.”
“A musician can get lost to what he is in the session busines as it was.”
“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.”
“A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.”
“A musician carries the music within him. He needs no specific instrument. he is the music.”
Source: Mutant Message Down Under
“A musician doesn’t know how he creates music. A writer doesn’t know how plots come to his mind. A painter doesn’t know why he painted what he painted. Yeah, artists are humble folks, because deep down they know they are not doing the creating. But once they become successful, once they achieve fame, they turn arrogant.”
Source: The Meaninglessness of Meaning
“A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can”
“A musician is similar to someone who wrote a letter to the loved one. Then decided to read read it out loud instead of sending it.”
“A musician is what he listened to.”
“A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.”
“A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.”
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
Source: Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.”
“A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth,”
“A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?”
“A musician tunes his guitar. The optimist hears music. The pessimist hears noise. The realist hears sound. The physicist hears acoustic vibrations. The relativist hears both music and noise. The surrealist hears an orchestra play. The skepticist can't hear anything.”
“A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the Modifier's Madness. A lot of adjectives working overtime.”
“A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.”
“A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.”
Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose
“A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.”
“A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.”
“A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won't find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.”
“A Muslim allowed a topless Jew to sit on his camel. And we say we can't live side by side? I say we try and we can and we will. And you don't even have to be topless. L'chaim.”
“A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.”
“A Muslim has five duties towards another Muslim; to return a salutation, visit the sick, follow funerals, accept an invitation and say 'God have mercy on you' when one sneezes.”
“A Muslim is a person who follows Allah's laws without question. Sharia is our law. No interpretation is needed, nor are laws made by men. Allah is the only lawmaker.”
“A Muslim man can have up to four wives. He can divorce his wife without offering any reason, while it is quite difficult for a woman to get a divorce. The testimony of two women is equal to that of one man. Any woman who wishes to travel needs the written permission of her husband. And the number of unemployed women is four times that of men.”
“a muslim man carries out a mass shooting...and he's called a terrorist,
a white man does exactly the same thing and he's called a madman
both sets are mad, Yazz
I know, Warris I know
-p58, from Girl, Woman, Other”
“A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.”
“A Muslim who prays five times a day and yet beats his wife at home, is no religious person. A Christian who goes to Church every Sunday, and yet never talks to his or her neighbor with a smile on the face, is no religious person. On the other hand, an outspoken atheist who most lovingly talks and listens to people of all religions without any bigotry or prejudice is a hundred times more religious than all the theoretical preachers of all religions combined.”
“A Muslim woman was found in adultery or fornication and we know that there could be no pregnancy without the agency of a man, unless we are dealing with the virgin birth. Yet no man is charged with this crime. Where is the man in this case of adultery or fornication? Why isn't he being stoned? There is science today that can prove whether the man she claims is the father of her unborn child is actually so. So, if the law was fair, then, it would be carried out on both.”
“A must have oil: Lemongrass can give you a boost when you are too tired to think clearly.”
Source: Essential Oils Handbook: Recipes for Natural Living
“A must read book; the Holy Bible.”
“A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.”
“A mustard seed is all you need.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.”
“A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.”