David Tudor Quotes

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

David Tudor

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• I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Good
  • Think
  • Doing

• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

  B. B. King
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Night

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Body
  • Building
  • Hell

• For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • World
  • Good
  • Friends

• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Around
  • Corporations
  • Bend

• I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Want
  • Feel

• I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Why
  • She
  • History

• I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Together

• I love Chanel.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Chanel

• If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • True
  • Doing

• On the plane home I remember thinking that I am who I am because I have faith in myself, and it has always been the possibility of emotionally rewarding the experiences that has encouraged me to gamble on myself; those experiences have made all that I do worthwhile.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Remember

• We don’t forgive being as we are.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Attention

• I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Believe
  • America
  • Confidence

• I respect my dad, and he's amazing. He's my hero. He's the Beatles, man - or one of them.

  

  James McCartney
  • Respect
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• When I was producing 'Formula Vol. 2,' I knew I needed to come hard with the features and do something I hadn't done with Aventura. Collaborating with Drake was definitely one of those big steps that helped bachata go to the next level.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Done

• I'm mixed race - my dad's Caucasian, and my mom's Mexican - so I want to play anything and everything, from American to Latino, the whole spectrum; I'm insatiable.

  

  Lela Loren
  • American
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high for that. It was something that was shameful, and it really shouldn't be.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Fun

• If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Musicians
  • Connect

• I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention to the music.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Dance

• I just sort of choose to see the good in things, and I choose to - I don't know - look on the bright side, as cheesy as it sounds.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Good
  • Cheesy

• I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

  

  David Tudor