He had always wanted to write Music and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikowsky's First Concerto, or the last movement of Rachmaninoff's Second. Men have not found the words for it nor the deed nor the thought, but they have found the Music. Let me see that in one single act of man on earth. Let me see it made real. Let me see the answer to the promise of that Music. Not servants nor those served; not altars and immolations; but the final, the fulfilled, innocent of pain. Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers - Show me yours - show me that it is possible - show me your achievement - and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim" BRING ME THE HORIZON Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard... ME Just look at what is spelled: Hal Jordan BrUce Wayne Victor Stone Clark KenT... ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester... ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high. ME The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words. ELIZABETH J. KOLODZIEJ We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And af... ANNE HUTCHINSON I'm the type of girl who smiles a lot. I'm the type of girl who is kind to everyone. I'm the type of... NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under th... LEO TOLSTOY I ask you neither for health nor for sickness, for life nor for death; but that you may dispose of m... BLAISE PASCAL Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for t... RABINDRANATH TAGORE Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. So... SABRINA WARD HARRISON My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. WALKER PERCY He's never threatened me, but told the neighborhood how he dislikes me. I've let it go. I have not b... BOB MARGOLIS He might not let me in. Or he might be happy to see me. AL WESTOVER It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m... EMILY BRONTë Better for the judge to see my innocence than for me to think I see it. It is very comfortable for m... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON He asked for that. Since the first one, he wasn't on me for that one, but after that one, they put h... BON BEAN O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation . Say it so tha... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and le... NINA SIMONE That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocea... NICHOLAS SPARKS I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd... NICHOLAS SPARKS Change isn't always for the best. NICHOLAS SPARKS Give it to me, she wanted to scream. Give me the pain. Let me take it from you. VERONICA ROSSI until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, no... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I'd been told that he had been created-literally created-just for me,as my "perfect other half." Let... JAMES PATTERSON May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, ... GASTON LEROUX Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
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10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI Give me but one hour of Scotland,
Let me see it ere I die.
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GERMANGIRL24 My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to... BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN Absolutely. It brought me luck. Maybe he will see it on the court and it will give me an advantage t... DOMINIK HRBATY [Jon's been in the lab with Too Short as well.] Short is like 'Uncle Short,' ... Short was the first... LIL JON Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any... STEPHAN GRELLET The one thing I wanted most in life was for my dad to see me coaching in the Final Four. He won't ge... TREVOR ADAIR When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let ... PAUL MCCARTNEY He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of floggin... ANTHONY TROLLOPE Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens. 1. It is cold. So cold tha... 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AYN RAND Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. AYN RAND At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings... AYN RAND Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the... AYN RAND In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In th... AYN RAND When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to ... AYN RAND I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and s... AYN RAND If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me ... AYN RAND A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be... AYN RAND He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND Reality is an absolute, existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and so is a human l... AYN RAND Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ... AYN RAND But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. AYN RAND Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is
the man who disagr... AYN RAND He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's... AYN RAND The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave. AYN RAND The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed AYN RAND Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'... AYN RAND The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ... AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged AYN RAND God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. AYN RAND