La La Anthony Quotes
Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.
Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.
It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.
You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.
Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.
You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
The important thing is not to know who "I" is or what "I" is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
What is the work of a Master?" said a solemn-faced visitor. "To teach people to laugh ," said the Master gravely.
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
It can be nerve wracking if you walk into the interview and you're not sure what to expect.
I watched all the Saw movies. They were good. But I think Freddie Krueger or Jason might be the best.
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.
