Alfred Brendel Quotes

I am accountable to the composer, but I am also there to communicate something to the listener. I am not delivering a soliloquy, but am somewhere in the middle.

Alfred Brendel

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• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Teach

• I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Cancer
  • Will
  • Smoking

• Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Always
  • Enough

• I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Know
  • Fans
  • Situation

• I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Seen

• But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • She
  • Dream

• When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Day
  • Film
  • Working

• My parents did not encourage romances.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Parents
  • Did
  • Encourage

• After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Change
  • Powerful
  • Hero

• Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Training

• Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Patience
  • Persistence

• The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Worst

• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• I don't belong much anywhere.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Much
  • Belong
  • Anywhere

• I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Boy
  • Working
  • Conservation

• Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

  

  Karen O
  • Difficult
  • Really
  • Records

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• I've come of heart, baby, but now I'm coolI didn't make it surely, playin' by the rulesI've come of heart, baby, but now I'm fineI'm checkin' trouble, sure movin' down the lineI've come of heart, baby, but that's OK'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Heart
  • Baby

• Marriage is absolutely not something I'm scared of, but it isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Marriage

• The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?" "No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?" "I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • People
  • Girl
  • Way

• I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about efforts to turn religious beliefs into law and those efforts benefit greatly from the conviction that individually and collectively we cannot be good without God.

  

  Wendy Kaminer
  • God
  • Law
  • Beliefs

• Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Charity
  • Tremble
  • Marxist

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• I am accountable to the composer, but I am also there to communicate something to the listener. I am not delivering a soliloquy, but am somewhere in the middle.

  

  Alfred Brendel