Evelyn Glennie Quotes
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
A. R. Rahman -
At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
P. J. Harvey -
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
Baz Luhrmann -
I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
Nandan Nilekani -
I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
Park Chan-wook
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
Barry Hannah -
My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
Madi Diaz -
I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
Albert Einstein -
I don't think you ever really decide that you want to be an astronaut. I put in an application and hoped for the best.
Kathleen Rubins -
You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
George Benson -
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
Alan Rickman -
I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.
T Bone Burnett -
It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.
Ami Ayalon -
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Oscar Wilde -
When you decide to let go and be free. When you remember everything that you decided to let go earlier.
Sahir Ludhianvi
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The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.
Kim Deal The Breeders -
Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.
Roy H. Williams -
I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late.
Evelyn Glennie