Van Cliburn Quotes
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
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On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.
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Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
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If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.
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I try not to match too much. You know, if there's a blue coat and a blue shirt and a blue tie, I try to stay away from that. I'd rather have a blue coat and a yellow shirt and a pink tie. I don't like to look too matching. You know those mismatched socks kids wear? That's my idea of a good suit.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
