Cornelius Cardew Quotes
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
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Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.
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Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.
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Composing is improvisation slowed down.
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'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.
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Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.
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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
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No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
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I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.
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I'm not jumping on the Andy Johnson for England bandwagon - I'm driving it!
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There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
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Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.
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Quiet authority accomplishes what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm.
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I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.
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There's a difference between religion and faith," Chandi said, "Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.
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Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
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The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
