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To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something that must be abolished, is the [supreme idiocy], in a general sense a real disaster in its consequences … almost as stupid as the will to abolish bad weather.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
This ability to live at the surface, to take the events of daily life with the meanings they present rather than to seek their hidden purpose, to find happiness and joy in what there already is, finds its easiest expression in a pre-Christian age. Indeed, not just a pre-Christian age, but a pre-Buddhist, pre-Platonic, pre-Hinduist, and pre-Confucian one as well.
All Things Shining
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
Developing musical long-term memory is primarily a function of careful, conscious listening. There is no more important activity in influencing one's style than hearing the same recordingfour songs of Horace Silver, Jack Teagarden, Franz Schubert, or whatever it may be, for an hour each night for a week or three-just intimate, involved listening, not memorizing or running to the piano or another instrument to "learn" it. This practice, if done regularly, helps put the selected music into one's history and The Yo vocabulary, and will affect one's performance to some degree.
Primacy of the Ear
Ran Blake
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