Hanns Eisler Quotes
A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.
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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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Coffee is a language in itself.
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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
