David Ogden Stiers Quotes
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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We don't need to go back in time and make America great again, because really, America was only great for certain people.
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We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
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I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.
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When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.
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What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
