“All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.” ThreeSoundWrittenModernCenturyYesterdayOld FashionedOld Music Author:Peter Warlock
“It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.” PeopleWellsMayProblemSoundMy OwnPracticeMiddleCenturyBasesDecadesPsychologicalChiefsEmptinessSurprisingColleaguesTwentieth CenturyClinicalsPsychiatric Book:Man's Search for Himself Source: Man's Search for Himself
“Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.” IfsLightWaitingSoundMusicHeardAirCenturyBreathsSpeed Book:Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday Source: Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday
“Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.” KnowsFeelsWritingBelieveWellsKindLongFeelingsCertainI BelieveSoundCommunityCenturyEmotionalMaterialsStonesGuidesChainsAdviseLambsBucketsNewbornMaterial ThingsDampFleeceSmall Communities Author:Geraldine Brooks