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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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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.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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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.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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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.
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Anything with no head is dead, and anything with two heads is a freak.
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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.
