Pierre Boulez Quotes
My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I hate competition.
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I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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My first love was the sound of guitar.
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Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our society is culminated, dumbed-down and mass produced, there is a shining jewel in the rise of the indy record stores. Going to a record shop for me is like a little treasure hunt no one can take you on but yourself. It's fun to look around and see the other shoppers too...totally entrenched in their own adventure, anticipating the reward of heart wrenching, soul filling, joy making music that might just be a bin or a flip away.
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I started listening to The-Dream a lot. That's when I really got into writing songs. I like the way he put lyrics and makes his songs. So I was like, 'All right,' and I just started writing. That's when I started wanting to be a songwriter.
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My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.
