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Marianne Wiggins Quotes

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Marianne Wiggins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: September 8, 1947

Topics

Music Words Silence Thoughts Writing

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

Motto Voice Try Never Always Inward

Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.

Walk Simple Interesting Now See

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

Money Hate Find Know Now Top

If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.

Tom Goodman-Hill

Family Time Talking You Down Leave

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Age Past Old Age Why Old Reason

I began to think about those that were in my situation that were not able to walk out of an abusive marriage, or maybe those that did not know where to go, that were in a single headed marriage, or widows. I was thinking what it was I could do to reach out to them.

Marriage Walk Think Thinking Reach

My fat never made me less money.

Money Me Fat Never Made Less

As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.

Walk Fashion Reading You Find Down

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

People Talking You Information Know

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

Wynton Marsalis

Music American Country New Jazz

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Life Music Imagination Soul Mind

There's never been a good period of venture capital when prices weren't high.

Good Never High Venture Capital Been

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