Virgil Thomson Quotes

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

Virgil Thomson

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• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Dream
  • Acting
  • Ability

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Good
  • Very
  • Second

• If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Law

• The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • World
  • War
  • Hope

• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • School
  • Wonder

• When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Writing
  • Position
  • Obtain

• We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Kind
  • Economy
  • Recovery

• America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Years
  • President

• Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

  

  Baba Amte
  • Destiny

• That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Done
  • Teacher
  • Yoga

• External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Individual
  • Conditions
  • External

• Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

  

  Steve Tisch
  • Judgment
  • Behavior
  • Wounds

• The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Judgment
  • Explanation
  • Description