Walter Piston Quotes

I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

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• I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Like

• I respect the Premier League.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Respect
  • Premier League

• I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Eyes
  • Presence
  • Venice

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Be obscure clearly.

  

  E. B. White
  • Funny
  • Obscure
  • Clearly

• Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Help
  • High
  • Strong

• I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Beautiful

• Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Experience
  • Atomic Bomb

• Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Helping
  • Ashamed
  • Damage

• Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Words
  • Dad
  • Mom

• The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Problems
  • Will
  • Decisions

• I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Law
  • Rule Of Law

• They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Process

• A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Different
  • Film
  • Stars

• I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Want
  • Question
  • Wind

• The secret is I have no shame.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Secret
  • Shame

• I know a lot of people have views on oil and gas companies and our role in the energy transition, I would like to use this platform to talk openly about that and explain the role BP can play, as I believe we share the same concerns and hopes.

  

  Bernard Looney
  • Views
  • Companies
  • Hopes

• But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Women
  • She

• [A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Home
  • Game

• I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

  

  Walter Piston
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