Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen. And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems.
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There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
