Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes
I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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In New Hampshire, we know that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the engines of economic growth in the 21st-century economy, and our state has long been defined by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
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I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.
