Richard Rodney Bennett Quotes

Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

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• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
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• There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

  

  Dale Dauten
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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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• I'm a songwriter first.

  

  Carole King
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• Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

  

  Alan Alda
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• The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.

  

  E. J. Hughes
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• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  

  Rob Zombie
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• Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.

  

  Jason Mraz
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• When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
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• Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.

  

  N.D. Wilson
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• The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about DC culture that doesn't include some marble building or the Kennedy Center.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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• First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

  

  Vinny Testaverde
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• Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

  

  Vladimir Putin
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• One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

  

  William Osler
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• I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

  

  William Francis Buckley
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• I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
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• To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

  

  Jane Austen
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• I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices.

  

  Niels Arden Oplev
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• Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

  

  M. Scott Peck
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• War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.

  

  Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Firsts
  • Pieces
  • Encouragement