The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a … - Erich Fromm

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I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.

Erich Fromm

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

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There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

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The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

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I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.

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John Steinbeck

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

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Daniel Libeskind

The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

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