Charles Ives Quotes
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.
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He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
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Music truly is the universal language.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
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If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
