Harrison Birtwistle Quotes
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.Harrison Birtwistle
Quotes to Explore
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward -
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
Vaughn Monroe -
Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills -
If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
Carl Perkins -
But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
Waylon Jennings
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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.
A. R. Rahman -
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek -
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
Walter Mosley -
I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
Mac DeMarco -
I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
Cameron Monaghan -
I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
Kat Dennings
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
Becky G -
I like music a lot.
Usain Bolt -
I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
P. J. Harvey -
If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
Banks -
In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
Karen Joy Fowler -
Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
Naveen Jain
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I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
Walter Cronkite -
Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
Steve Wynn -
I never think about a shoot before I do it. Because there's no formula for people. What I try to do is to strip everything away rather than go in with preconceived notions. If I do that, I might miss a gem or a jewel that the person is offering me.
Platon Antoniou -
I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
Vanessa Bayer -
My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.
Mackenzie Crook -
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
Harrison Birtwistle