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 journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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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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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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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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And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.
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The Rock: And I quote: You know your damn role and Shut Your Damn Mouth!
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
