#mph

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. ↗

— David Del Tredici

#composers #instruments #love #musical #orchestras

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#bogart #comes #fame #guy #his

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#emphasizing #ethics #live #one day #one day at a time

When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life. ↗

— Toba Beta

#harmony #heart #inspirational #instument #life

I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#been #fan #go #i #i love

We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#elves #gods #nature #nymphs #beauty

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#capital #church #growing #growing up #i

Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition. ↗

— Charles Vest

#amount #award #best #cannot #changes

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#become #before #defeats #demonstrated #discouraged