Miroslav Vitous Quotes
They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
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I didn't feel attractive in high school.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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We have a moral responsibility to stand up to Donald Trump, and that's what we're going to do.
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Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.
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I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.
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For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.
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Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
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I'll work with Jerry Seinfeld any day of the week. Get a nice little paycheck there, but you do it for free. It's just good to be associated with that man. He's a great guy.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.
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They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.
