Steve Krug Quotes
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
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My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
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Never trust a skinny cook.
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It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.
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Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.
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Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.
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As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, ‘Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.
