P.J. Mann Quotes
The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.
What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.
You have to be concerned with yourself because if you're not on it all the time, nobody else is going to be.
Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.
Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.
They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night.
Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.
A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.
