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Quotes by English Authors
"All autobiography is self-indulgent."
"Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family."
"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
"Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off."
"Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch."
"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
"The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen."
"Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt."
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."
"The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times."
"Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration."
"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity."
"The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure."
"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
"I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring."
"Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music."
"Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect."
"Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition."
"Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to good; more wonderfulThan that which by creation first brought forthLight out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand,Whether I should repent me now of sinBy me done, and occasioned; or rejoiceMuch more, that much more good thereof shall spring;To God more glory, more good-will to menFrom God, and over wrath grace shall abound."
"I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now."
"None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue."
"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
"When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss."
"I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics."
"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."
"It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing."
"You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds. And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life."
"You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting."
"It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment."
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