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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
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I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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I love holidaying with the kids after working hard, it is amazing.
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My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.
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So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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You create value, and you create jobs.
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It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.
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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.
