Alfred Brendel Quotes
Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
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I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I support a free and open Internet.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.
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Is That All There Is?
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Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
