Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
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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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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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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.
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We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
