Morton Feldman Quotes
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
Samuel Barber
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I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.
Olivia Newton-John
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
Gavin Bryars
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I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.
Patch Adams
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There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
Irwin Redlener
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
A. E. Hotchner
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We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...
Edward McKendree Bounds
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The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger
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When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.
Artie Lange
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There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
Napoleon Hill
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You've got to be pretty confident that you're good. If I do a show and for whatever reason no one laughs, I'll be like, 'Wow, those people are weird'.
Aziz Ansari
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I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
Kiefer Sutherland
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At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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The artist must forget the audience,
forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.
Then, the music speaks through the performance,
and the performer and the listener will walk together
with the soul of the composer, and with
God.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.
Eugene Walter
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I hope one day it's not revolutionary just to be yourself, but I think that the work that's being done around identity and personhood is so important.I feel inspired by people around me who are part of this movement as well: Hari Nef and Rowan Blanchard and Willow Smith and these kids who are really not going to listen to anyone. "I'm just going to say whatever I feel. I'm going to be myself. And if you don't like it, then, you can go screw yourself."
Amandla Stenberg
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I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.
Ezra Miller
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The composer makes plans, music laughs.
Morton Feldman
