Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
Interpretation
Music is an essential part of life that brings joy and companionship.
Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of music in our lives, suggesting that engaging with it can lead to deeper enjoyment and comfort. He sees music not merely as entertainment but as a lifelong companion that enriches our experiences and helps us navigate through various moments in life.
In practice
In a speech about the arts, one might quote Jefferson to inspire support for music programs.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else
Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.
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