Alfred Brendel Quotes
Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
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I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.
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The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.
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If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.
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Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
