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"Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing."
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"God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge."

"Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection."

"The God that is nearest to you in the people around you is the real one you need."

"You may be born thousands of years from now, but over the boundaries of time I am sending you my love and wishing you a joyful and wonderful life."

"Distance is an outer phenomenon. In the inner world, everything is connected with love."

"When he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth."

"You can only see God when you notice people."

"Everything becomes yours when you touch it with your love. You are connected to everything with your feelings."

"I've never really had a party before. "Why did you have one now? I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come."

"Temporary friends sometimes bring us to permanent blessings."
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"Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music."

"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things."

"Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language."

"I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music."

"Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided."

"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."

"No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music."

"Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express."
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