Virgil Thomson Quotes
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Virgil Thomson
Quotes to Explore
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
E. L. Doctorow
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
Natalie Goldberg
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
Gabrielle Union
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
Warren Ellis
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham
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The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.
Bette Lord
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
Jack Bruce
Cream
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Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If real, regular, normal, boring life, when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.
Alex Day
Chameleon Circuit
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Watching 'Dark Crystal' now, having made Muppet films, it really strikes me just how ambitious that film is in terms of the constructs, the builds, the puppeteering.
James Bobin
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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Virgil Thomson