❤: China: Beijing

Sunday, August 17, 2008

China: Beijing

Current reading: Beijing Time
This book relates about Beijing's tumultuous transformations & many deep studies of both its urban form and experience to the contemporary Beijing of today. Kinda interesting.

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'Music is not a luxury, but a need, like the air we breathe and the water we drink.'

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."~Ben Franklin

“Few things in life can spark and radiate strong pleasure, intense feelings, and touch the main nerve of the soul... music is a divine source to those who will let it travel within.”- Ellis Hadlock

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."
-Gustav Mahler

"Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island. He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. 'I am', he sighed deeply, 'contented as a clam. I am a most happy man." - Ethel Pochocki, Wildflower Tea

"Every piece of music is a beautiful misunderstanding" ~ 范宗沛

"Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads." - Maynard James Keenan

‎"Words make you think a thought, Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. " – E.Y. Harburg

‎"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Lao Tzu

‎"Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sunday, August 17, 2008

China: Beijing

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