Zoltan Kodaly Quotes
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
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Without music, life would be a blank to me.
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Germany was very strict; there was this phrase ‘serious music’. But in New York, there was no barrier – people were only interested in whether music was wild and interesting and beautiful.
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I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.
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I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
