Modest Mussorgsky (Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky) Quotes
In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.
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There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
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The Truth is the Truth.
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Only love is real...everything else is illusion
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One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.
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The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?
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The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.
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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
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Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
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It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.
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One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.
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And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
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I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'
