George Crumb Quotes

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

George Crumb

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• It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Growth
  • Learn
  • Impossible

• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

  Babette March
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Just

• The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Heart
  • New
  • New York

• I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Literature
  • Missing
  • Japanese

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
  • She
  • True

• We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Like
  • Europe
  • Preserve

• One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Free Press

• Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Terrible
  • Price
  • Economics

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Love
  • Giving

• I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• I'm the kind of person who always wants more. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Worst
  • Possible
  • Too

• There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• Any reaction is better than none.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Better
  • Reaction
  • Than

• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Proud

• Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • She
  • Nature
  • Party

• The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Death
  • Genius
  • Stone

• Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Long

• I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

  

  David Malpass
  • Small
  • Growth

• Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

  

  Aristotle
  • Music
  • Character
  • Education

• In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

  

  George Crumb
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Small