Emanuel Ax Quotes
If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.
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Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.
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A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that I've practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and it's something I take pride in being able to do.
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And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
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If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.
