#kin

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#love #making #music #own #really

Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dreams

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#after #die #ever #felt #going

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles. ↗

— Bjork

#could #having #i #mind #nerd

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check. ↗

— Russell Banks

#solitude #spend #time #total #working

Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now? ↗

— Christopher Moore

#christopher-moore #dreams

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#basket #believed #business #carried #eggs

When someone says, “One last thing,” it never is. Unless they die right after speaking. Make sure that they do. 
Check their pulse to be certain. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#certainty #conversation #death #murder #pulse

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#kind #lends #our #study #surroundings