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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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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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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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.
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I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
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Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.
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I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know.
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Salvation lies in imitating Christ, in other words, in imitating the 'withdrawal relationship' that links him with his Father... To listen to the Father's silence is to abandon oneself to his withdrawal, to conform to it.
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Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
