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

• 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

• 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

• The Dice Man, 1971, p. 99.

  

  Luke Rhinehart

• I didn't even know what a tour manager was, but I was the tour manager, booking agent, all that stuff for almost two years without knowing it. I wasn't overwhelmed, because I enjoyed doing it.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Enjoyed
  • Manager
  • Overwhelmed

• I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Integrity

• Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

  

  David Maister
  • Conflict
  • Discovered
  • Profit

• In 2007, a very inspired New York University Ph.D. student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models that were hired, only 27, or less than four per cent, were non-white.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Single
  • Inspired
  • New York

• Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes

• So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

  

  Dennis Chavez
  • Practice

• I love that I have a job that I love.

  

  Ekaterina Gordeeva
  • Job

• 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