Ive spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music. – Renee Fleming
I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe youre a diva. They cant believe after eight years, and eight albums, youre still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody. – Katherine Jenkins
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward. – Fiona Apple
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. – Ludwig van Beethoven
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when youre talking about building a house, youre talking about dreams. – Robert A. M. Stern
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. – Hugo Black
