Colin R. Davis Quotes
All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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When you have haters, you're doing something right.
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If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.
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I've kind of stepped into my femininity.
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I hope that youngsters and civil society organizations and every Indian will feel proud. It is a noble cause to work for the rights of children. It is a movement against child labour and everyone must join it.
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Listen, here is the law! I am the law! These boys go to work!
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All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.
