George Crumb Quotes
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.
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We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.
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I've had a lot more fun with the training.
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Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
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I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.
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The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
