And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
I only ever really follow the music, that's what I'm about, I don't think about it too much. I just wanted to make a piece to sleep through, to sort of explore that sleeping space as a listening space and to have a different encounters between our listening minds or hearing minds and music. I think that's really interesting. After that I feel I've done my job.
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.