Elliott Carter Quotes
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
Quotes to Explore
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
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It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.
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When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.
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I don't like actors, I like women.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
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I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.
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I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.
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The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.
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Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga
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Who was the first man to look at a house full of objects and to immediately assess them only in terms of what he could trade them in for in the market likely to have been? Surely he can only have been a thief.
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Juan and Andres pledge themselves to a Latino empowerment organization.
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The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
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Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
