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Sitaatit 2006 "The ideal sound is the one that exists totally in the mind, because its the most intimate." ~ Walter Murch "Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort." ~ John Ruskin 2005 "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot, 1819-1880 2004 "An eye for an eye will make us all blind." ~ Mahatma Ghandi "I've been forgotten by God." ~ Jeanne Louise Calment, longest confirmed lifespan (122 years 164 days) "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." ~ Christopher Reeve "One of the nicest things about being big is the luxury of thinking little." ~ Marshall McLuhan "The answers are always inside the problem, not outside." ~ Marshall McLuhan "All advertising advertises advertising." ~ Marshall McLuhan "Today each of us lives several hundred years in a decade." ~ Marshall McLuhan "Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones?" ~ Marshall McLuhan "The trouble with a cheap, specialized education is that you never stop paying for it." ~ Marshall McLuhan "I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt." ~ Marshall McLuhan "Subject matter is critical in photography because subjects matter." ~ Kenn Bisio "Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. ~ Man Ray "A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts." ~ Sir Joshua Reynolds "You can observe a lot by just looking around." ~ Yogi Berra "A photograph is a lie that conceals a truth." ~ Picasso "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." ~ Emile Zola "Se, mitä on takanamme tai edessämme, on pientä verrattuna siihen, mitä on sisällämme." ~ Stephen Spender "Shopping is more American than thinking." ~ Andy Warhol "God doesn't play dice on universe." ~ Albert Einstein "Historia on laiva, joka kantaa eläviä muistoja tulevaisuuteen." ~ Stephen Spender "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." ~ William Congreve "Tärkeintä tässä maailmassa ei ole niinkään se missä me olemme, vaan se mihin suuntaan me liikumme." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894 "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays on Art "Music is the soul of language." ~ Max Heindel "Meidän on uskallettava, ja uskallettava uudelleen ja vieläkin jatkettava uskaltamista." ~ Georges Jacques Danton, 1759-1794 "Kohtalo ei riipu sattumasta, vaan sen voi valita. Eikä sitä saa jäädä odottamaan, vaan sitä on lähdettävä toteuttamaan." ~ William Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925 "Älä harmittele mielessäsi asioiden kulkua, eivät ne piittaa sinun harmitteluistasi. Kuinka naurettavaa ja turhaa onkaan hämmästellä mitään mitä elämässä voi tapahtua." ~ Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 "Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven." ~ Walter Savage Landor "En mä ole nähnyt sekuntiakaan vaivaa "Warder" -legendan luomiseksi. Mä oon fiilistellyt träkkerillä." ~ Vesa Norilo (a.k.a. Warder) "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." ~ Charlie Parker "Tuhannen kilometrin taival alkaa yhdestä askeleesta." ~ Laotse, 500 eKr "If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." ~ John Lennon "Tärkeintä elämässä ei ole se, että näemme sen mitä on jossakin kaukana, vaan se, että teemme sen mikä on suoraan edessämme." ~ Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881 "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden ".. for more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands and I found that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living." ~ Henry David Thoreau "Ei ihminen ole sen summa, mitä hänellä on, vaan sen loppusumma, mitä hänellä ei vielä ole ja minkä hän saattaisi saada." ~ Jean Paul Sartre, 1905-1980 "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems." ~ Arthur O'Shaunessey "Mixing is the art of losing creativly." ~ Anthony Airon Oetzmann who's teacher once put it, on "Gameaudiopro" mailing list in 2003 "..Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.." ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven's last words, 1770-1827 "Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will." ~ Capt. Edward A. Murphy, Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 "This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy." ~ Mark Twain's autobiography, 1924
Some of the instructions for Life in the new millennium from the Dalai Lama: "Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created." ~ Enigma, Michael Cretu "I don't know what weapons will be used in World War 3, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." ~ Albert Einstein "Always tell the truth. Tell a lot more of the truth than anybody expects you to tell. Never tell the whole truth." ~ James Rorthy, 1930 "Music is the shorthand of emotion." ~ Leo Tolstoy "Any tone can be combined with any other tone. Any group of tones can follow any other group of tones with any given rhythm." ~ V. Persichetti "A rose, a rose, by any nature a rose is still a rose.." ~ William Shakespeare, "Romeo & Juliet" 2003 "Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other." ~ Dalai Lama, instructions for life in the new millennium "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." ~ Thomas Carlyle "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ~ Arthur C. Clarke "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." ~ Dorothea Lange "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1770-1827 "Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart." ~ Pablo Casals "God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way!" ~ Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra 2002 "May the good Lord take a liking to you. May you spend 40 years in heaven until the devil knows you're dead." ~ Old Irish proverb, author unknown "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune." ~ Anon "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." ~ Walter Lippman "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." ~ Richard Milhous Nixon "Music affects the spirit like no other device." ~ Mozart "A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later." ~ Stanley Kubrick "A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age." ~ William Shakespeare "Music can be 50% of the entertainment value of a film." ~ Steven Spielberg "Technology is a catalyst for shaping what it is you're trying to purge yourself of emotionally." ~ Brian Transeau (BT) "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." ~ Henry David Thoreau "I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work." ~ Benjamin Franklin "Music is the key to the female heart." ~ Johann G. Seume 2001 "There are only twelve tones. You must treat them carefully." ~ Paul Hindemith "Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak." ~ Socrates "The soul belongs to God, but the body belongs to us." ~ Rasputin "Facts are stupid things." ~ Ronald Reagan "..it represents the shame of humanity, and the worst being on Earth still is man-kind.." ~ Cedrik Ahras, L'innomable Guerre "In a mad world only the mad are sane." ~ Akira Kurosawa "The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred." ~ Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motor Co. Ltd. "I don't know the secret of success, but the secret of failure is to try to please everybody." ~ Bill Cosby "I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn." ~ Pablo Picasso "The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1st of January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium." ~ Arthur C. Clarke, author of "2001: A Space Odyssey" "Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?" ~ William Shakespeare 2000 "Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously." ~ Henry Miller "If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker." ~ Albert Einstein, on his role helping develop the atom bomb "Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." ~ Winston Churchill "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." ~ Christopher Crowfield "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." ~ Albert Einstein "3 minute call from New York to London cost 250$ in 1930." "I think the scene is a community, not a pedestal. If you lose the sense of sharing a passion, you lose the real meaning of being in the demoscene." ~ Pedro (Marco Pietribiasi)
The time it took to sell ½ million videogame consoles: "Music was invented to confirm human loneliness." ~ Lawrence Durrell "When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentyfirst-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment." ~ Steven Halpern "When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. and nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death." ~ Denton Welch "Vision without action is just a dream. Action without vision is just activity. Vision and action together can change the world." ~ Joe Barker
Years it took to reach 50 million users: "Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of the million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever." ~ Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross 1969, "One Death and Dying" "There`s no teacher who can teach anything new. He can just help us to remember the things we always knew." ~ Enigma / Michael Cretu, "Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!" 1998 - 1999 "For me, it is nothing. New millennium, new century, or new year. For me it`s another day and night. The sun, the moon, the stars remain the same." ~ The Dalai Lama, August 1999 "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." ~ Union Commander, General John Sedgwick`s last words, died in 1864 battle during US Civil War "If I could gather all the stars and hold them in my hand, the colors I would then possess would not be half as grand, as those which I have seen, when I look deep in to your eyes or come across when I have kissed your lips, I realize." ~ Kim Ault, 1997 (also found in Jakob Svanholm's (a.k.a. Radix) song "I realize") "Like a snowflake on the sky, I came into your mind, I looked towards your eyes, and said your heart is mine. You took a step behind and told me I`m your kind, right then I started smiling and looked upon my darling." ~ Milan Kolarovic (a.k.a. Acumen) "During man`s stay on this planet, the earth has indifferently drunk the blood we have spilled upon it. It has embraced us when our time has been to leave. And after the last child of man has perished, still the earth remains." ~ Vesa Norilo (a.k.a Warder), in his song "Silence Farmhouse Waltz" "Intense kissing can burn up to 6,4 calories/minute. The amount equals the same as a 5 minute swim." ~ According to a British science research. "Thou shalt not kill." ~ God "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have." ~ Leonardo da Vinci`s dying words, died 1519 "I`ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that`s left are fruitless fires, That burn my empty heart to dust." ~ Aleksandr Pushkin "Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came." ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay "We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shaker Of the world forever, it seems." ~ Arthur O`Shaughnessy "She walks in beauty, like the night, Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that`s best of dark and bright, Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow`d to that tender light, Which heaven to gaudy day denies." ~ Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" "If I could take your troubles, I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I`m finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain, Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that`s always there." ~ Khahlil Gibran "A True Friend" |