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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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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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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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness 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 shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.
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Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a lot of concern about getting embroiled in another Vietnam and ... about sending American troops once again to fight someone else's war.
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There's no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It's all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.
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I need eclectic people in my life.
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I'd challenge myself to see how long I could go without a fall - on beam, I once went three weeks.
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The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
