Steve Reich Quotes

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

Steve Reich

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• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Art

• Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Know
  • Single

• On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Day
  • Hands
  • December

• Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Country
  • Chinese
  • Run

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Person
  • Talent
  • Genius

• Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Imagination
  • Human
  • Kindness

• Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Law
  • Myself

• Both China and Russia felt duped by the U.N. 'no-fly' zone resolution regarding Libya in 2011 that eventually led to the ouster of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. China and Russia had abstained from the Libyan resolution, and neither country plans to make what they regard as a similar mistake again.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Country
  • Mistake
  • Fly

• Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • American
  • Mom
  • Wife

• Our nation has come so far since 1968 when Dr. King was assassinated, but I know we can do better to achieve The Dream, and that is why I keep marching on.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Why
  • Dream
  • King

• I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.

  

  The Weeknd

• Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Respect

• My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback. And then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Up
  • Memories

• I definitely believe that if you stop working at relationships, they go away.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Believe
  • Stop

• Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

  

  Bernard Kerik
  • Eyes
  • Dying

• A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.

  

  Charles Petzold
  • Music
  • Player

• I searched the FM band but there was nothing besides other pious pleaders, and they didn't come in too well. The AM band offered about the same thing, only with worse reception, nothing remotely describable as news, and no music because commercial entertainment as we knew it was no more, and its handmaiden, advertising had gone with it.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Music
  • Band

• I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Practice

• The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

  

  Chris Chocola
  • Law
  • Wall

• I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • World
  • Love
  • Word

• I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

  

  Steve Reich
  • Music
  • Survive
  • Context