Eric Whitacre Quotes
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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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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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
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There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I think everyone now rotates. The Tinkerman was one; now there are a lot of tinkermen!
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I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.
