Karlheinz Stockhausen Quotes
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
