Andre Rieu Quotes

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.

Andre Rieu

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• If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

  

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• Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

  

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• I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

  

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• My schedule is so crazy.

  

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• With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.

  

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• I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

  

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• It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

  

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• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

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• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

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• As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.

  

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• In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

  

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• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

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• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

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• My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

  

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• I was a really pretentious teenager.

  

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• I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss.

  

  Andre Rieu
  • Teenager