Anton Webern Quotes
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
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I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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It is never literally true that any form is meaningless and 'says nothing.' Every form in the world says something. But its message often fails to reach us, and even if it does, full understanding is often withheld from us. and, properly speaking, FORM IS THE OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF THIS INNER MEANING.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.
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The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature... and that tends to mean public spending.
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You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
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What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
