George Gershwin Quotes
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.George Gershwin
Quotes to Explore
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
Barry Eichengreen -
I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
Mahershala Ali -
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
Adam Lambert -
I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
Zach LaVine -
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim -
I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
Verite
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Quincy Jones -
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
Nancy Pearcey -
There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
Natalie Dormer -
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.
Walter Russell Mead -
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
Patrick Dempsey
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
Vera Farmiga -
I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.
Walter Isaacson -
I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
Flume -
I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
Karen Handel -
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
Hall Caine
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Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!
Taylor Lautner -
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
A. S. Byatt -
Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.
Mary Elizabeth Lease -
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
Macaulay Culkin -
Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon -
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.
George Gershwin