Cassiodorus Quotes
For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
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There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
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Then speaking of his loosely figurative work of the 1930's, in Germany I was still under nature, not that I was imitating it; now 1957 I am above nature. But everything comes from nature, I too am part of nature; my memory comes from nature, too.
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No one ever took music away from me, but I’m damned if it ever sounds quite as good as it used to when I was twenty.
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Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.
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I do like pop music. It's that certain thing that it gives you: the adrenaline rush, that instant gratification.
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One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.
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I believe that great success is possible in any field - from music to mathematics to macro trading.
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
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The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
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Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
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I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'
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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
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I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.
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Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
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Here's some news you might find surprising: By and large, the French like Jews.
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The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.
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For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
