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Quotations

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Most of these things I believe, some are just interesting. I know that many people read and enjoy this page, but it’s really here for my own personal use. I have to keep them somewhere.

In No Particular Order:

“Historically, artists have been employed by leading institutions to bring emotional truth to established principles. Yet in our new global society, no institution has the wide acceptance to create values and direction for the majority of people. Markets in free societies are rapidly replacing governments and religious institutions as regulators of the highest authority, and markets perform without values; they do not converse in a human tongue. The arts can break new ground here, bringing human consciousness to bear on these flows of product and capital, energizing our interpersonal connections, and opening new doors for invention and practice.”
- Benjamin Zander

“Timeless art is not something that doesn’t relate to any era; it’s something that does relate to every era.”
- Anon

“Music is a painting on the canvas of time.”
- Eric Gruenberg

“Culture is like sharks and relationships - move forward, or die!”
- Anon, on an original comment by Woody Allen

“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.”
- Yehudi Menuhin

“Singing is still the basis of music - one of the two; the other is silence”
- Alfred Brendel

“Starbucks is the new Church”
- Me