Bruce Beresford Quotes
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
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I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.
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Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
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It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.
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With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.
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When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
