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 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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• 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.

  

  Walker Percy
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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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• Yes, aging can be tough and rough... But it is possible to approach the ultimate without staggering and even with a kind of glow, like a radiant sunset.

  

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• Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.

  

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• 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.

  

  Modest Mussorgsky
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  • Giants