I like playing at the U.S. Open because I like New York. It’s a nice city. You can do anything there. It’s one of my favourite cities in the world. I also like Indian Wells and Miami, too. Caroline Wozniacki Read Quote
The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever. Frankie Cosmos Read Quote
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H. L. Mencken Read Quote
Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we’re not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it. Daniel Barenboim Read Quote
In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. Desmond Tutu Read Quote
The charge frequently leveled against poetry – that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot – indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck. Joseph Brodsky Read Quote
I had always dreamed of living in Chapel Hill. When I was a college student at Hollins University in Virginia, I came down to Chapel Hill for summer school and just loved it. Lee Smith Read Quote