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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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
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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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The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
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Concealers are like undergarments. They make you feel taller and thinner.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything. When I’m drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your ability to reason. It makes you forget your own character and become a crazy. Maybe I am a crazy now; I’m going through so much chaos these days that reality is hard to grasp.
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Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
