Philip Glass Quotes
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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The world is too violent right now.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Think and grow rich.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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on the Aston Martin DB7 sat-nav Then there's the satellite navigation system which is the most complicated sat-nav system in the world. And the wrongest. Always wants to take you to Bedford. Even if you want to go to Manchester, it wants to go to Bedford, that's all it knows. You want to go somewhere? 'Sure, I'll take you to Bedford.'
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He was a man born into a world dominated by scientific materialism. His objection to this materialism was not merely intellectual, or even egotistical (the feeling 'If the world is wholly material, then I can't be very important'). It was the feeling that man is cut off from his inner powers by this superficial attitude.
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I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.
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What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
