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Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound. ↗

— Terry Riley

#abstract #create #decided #doing #experimentation

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#baptism #caused #i #i am #misfortune

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#bitter #dawns #every #heartbreaking #i

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality. ↗

— Elle Thornton

#historic-fiction #military-history #north-carolina #race-relations #young-adult-fiction

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#been #benefit #i #i think #looking

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do. ↗

— Kathleen Winsor

#busy #everything #get #knocking #most

Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember? ↗

— Robert Ripley

#around #back #behind #bit #come

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning. ↗

— Robert Ripley

#aunt #concerts #down #friday #friday afternoon

C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#bet #faster #growing #i #java

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#any #around #away #because #becomes