Nena Rafajlovska > Nena's Quotes

“Prvo je da se maniš bedastoća i počneš svirati po sluhu. Let`s play by ear, kako kažu jazz glazbenici. Zaboravi na davanje prognoza, jer one uvijek promaše. Zaboravi očekivanja, jer uvijek iznevjere. Slušaj. Uči. Voli ono što jest. Osjeti bilo života i pusti da te ono vodi. Kad prestaneš biti usredotočen samo na sebe i prigrliš svijet takav kakav jest, prestat ćeš biti nesretan, jer je svaki put dobar za onoga tko hoda lišen prtljage. Amen.
Dobro je voljeti samoga sebe, ali pokušaj uvijek malo više voljeti druge. Kao bumerang oni će se potom pobrinuti da ti pribave ljubav koju trebaš. Nemoj se osjećati važnim, jer ništa i nitko to nije. Ako si sposoban biti onaj koji jesi i biti gdje jesi, time ćeš već mnogo postići.
Što ti više mogu reći? Besmisleno je davati ti upute, jer ćeš napraviti ono što zbilja poželiš i dobro je da bude tako. Na kraju krajeva, nitko ne zna definirati što je sreća, jer ona svakome znači nešto drugo.”
― Francesc Miralles, El cuaderno de Aroha

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical—to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

“People probably heard a greater quantity of music, and a greater variety, on these devices than they would ever hear in person in their lifetimes.”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

“Musicians sort of knew this already—that the emotional center is not the technical center, that funky grooves are not square, and what sounds like a simple beat can either be sensuous or simply a metronomic timekeeper, depending on the player.”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

“Performers try harder.”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

“I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Memories are worse than bullets.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
― Sergei Rachmaninov

“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.”
― Sergei Rachmaninoff

“I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.”
― Sergei Rachmaninoff