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Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.


Patrick Rothfuss

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DEYTH BANGER Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY This music is very eclectic, ... It's tough to find musicians who are experts in 15 different styles...
DAVID GRISMAN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS —No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS If we were living in a better age they'd build a temple around a woman like that.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Her eyes were dark. Dark as chocolate, dark as coffee, dark as the polished wood of my father’s lu...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Patrick has been singing his whole life. He writes music and plays piano by ear.
CHRIS BRANDON The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT My alar is like the ocean in storm. (Devi)
PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penn...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
DAVID GUETTA The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and m...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you liste...
MILES DAVIS Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
RICHARD WAGNER If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds a...
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying...
JUSTIN HALPERN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS I love playing all kinds of music, ... And the way to learn that music is with the musicians who inv...
DAVID GRISMAN Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period...
HIROMI UEHARA A good golf course is like good music. It does not necessarily appeal the first time one plays it.
ALISTER MACKENZIE Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
EDGAR WILSON NYE Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
BILL NYE Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
EDGAR WILSON NYE Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
MARK TWAIN I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make so...
ROBERT MOOG so höre denn, was zu hören lohnt: es fürchte der weise die nacht ohne mond.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, an...
OSCAR WILDE The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musician...
ALBERTA HUNTER Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK The music is very beautiful, but when people hear it they experience emotions and a meaning that goe...
LAURA FREID I feel painting is like music, it plays to the emotions.
ANA CRISTINA BOJANINI Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without ...
BILLY JOEL when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand t...
ALAN W. WATTS I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and s...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I've been probably one of the most boot-legged artists ever. It's just another way of getting music ...
BRYAN ADAMS I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens.
1. It is cold. So cold tha...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
HENRY ROLLINS He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds...
ROBERT MOOG Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while sh...
MARIE RUTKOSKI Cualquiera puede amar algo por algún motivo. Eso es tan fácil como meterse un penique en el bolsil...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
BRUNO MARS The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, ar...
ROY AYERS Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
BIBLE There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it's not - it's someone els...
KEHLANI Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings.
XILA TORO To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because i...
NORAH JONES 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no ...
ALBERTA HUNTER It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
CONFUCIUS It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I am unique...I play by a different set of rules; I am not intimidated by anything.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sólo los sacerdotes y los locos no tienen miedo a nada, y yo nunca me he llevado muy bien con Dios
PATRICK ROTHFUSS At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with dif...
MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with dif...
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one o...
NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.
MARC BOLAN While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Remember, it is better to light one little candle than to curse the darkness.
FRANK GORSHIN For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea
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...
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Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
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M...
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and de...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally c...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?"
I gave i...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinite...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS A poet is a musician who can't sing.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d lik...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS For all that she lacked your fire.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile....
PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?"
"It's not very heroic," I said...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I guess I'm doomed to die loveless.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?'
'Lucky?...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Are you hurt?"
"Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I
summoned demons. I ate the entire little chee...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS