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Let me feed people on brown bread, grain foods, vegetables and plenty of fruit, and I will make the people sober without a single temperance lecture, and without an Act of Parliament. If people will live properly, they will neither have a desire for strong liquor, nor will they take it.

Thomas Allinson
The Way I Live My Life

I believe that music has a most important part to play in the art of cinema, which is a separate art form, only the cinema does not yet recognise the fact. Just as drama plus music made opera, so film plus music will make - what? I do not know, but I feel sure it will be something vital to us, something new.

Igor Stravinsky

Sometimes, all you
need is a
very hot shower

Following the first London performance of Messiah, Lord Kinnoul congratulated Handel on the excellent entertainment.
“My Lord,” Handel replied, “I should be sorry if I only entertained them, I wish to make them better.”

Death is vital

We’re walking through K-Mart with the shopping cart and we come up to the check out and Osama offers to pay for me and pulls out his credit card. But then I look at his blue visa card and at the bottom, where it says Osama Bin Laden, so I realise that it is a really bad idea to pay with that card.

Listening to Beethoven’s sonatas played by Isai Dobrowein at the home of Y. P. Peshkova in Moscow one evening, Lenin remarked: “I know of nothing better than the Appassionata and could listen to it every day. What astonishing, superhuman music! It always makes me proud, perhaps naively so, to think that people can work such miracles!” Wrinkling up his eyes, he smiled rather sadly, adding: “But I can’t listen to music very often, it affects my nerves. I want to say sweet, silly things and pat the heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty.”

Maxim Gorky
V.I. Lenin