Pierre Boulez Quotes

The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.

Pierre Boulez

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• I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • America
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Writing
  • College
  • Take

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English

• I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Past
  • Kind
  • Player

• I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Yoga

• For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Works

• I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • School
  • Fashion
  • Loved

• I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Atheist

• I like to have sleepovers.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Like

• It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Sin
  • Grace

• I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Opposed
  • NAFTA

• My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • View
  • Personal

• By healing our internal divisions and fully accepting ourselves as we are, we learn to accept and empower our sexual core, and we learn to honor our unique expression of Masculine and Feminine gifts. We fully incarnate in our bodies, at home and at ease in a man's body or a woman's body. And we learn to love with complete abandon, as free men and women, without rules or roles or guarded hearts.

  

  David Deida
  • Men
  • Women
  • Heart

• Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.

  

  Ernest Gruening
  • Alone
  • Find
  • Leaders

• From the mid-eighteenth century onward, computers, frequently women, were on the payrolls of corporations, engineering firms, and universities, performing calculations and doing numerical analysis, sometimes with the use of a rudimentary calculator.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Women
  • Computers
  • Mid-eighteenth century

• 'XXL,' they call me a freshman, but I'm a pro. So, this a platform to let people know I'm out here.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • People

• There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Work

• The most difficult problem in conducting is intonation. You must know what is wrong and how to correct it.

  

  Pierre Boulez