We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.
Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
I'm not someone who can sing anything. And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan. None of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt. . . doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.
Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.