Michael Tippett Quotes
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
Michael Tippett
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Lady Gaga
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
Lana Del Rey
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My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
Mahershala Ali
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
Yanis Varoufakis
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
Irvine Welsh
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
Nate Silver
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Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
Lana Del Rey
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Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
Jack Nance
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No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
Doris Day
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In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.
Christina Aguilera
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
Odilon Redon
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If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd.
Donald Glover
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I know we got guys in here who can get it done, because it happens on some nights. But it doesn't happen in others. This has to start with me, because I am our top offensive player. If I can send the message about playing defense, then I'm pretty sure everyone else will follow.
Allen Iverson
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I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".
Susanne Langer
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There aren't any moral victories.
DeMarcus Ware
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Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.
Michael Tippett
