Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Kovner

It has been great fun to find these manuscripts and pull them together into this collection. I trust that what we are doing at the school will make it possible for Juilliard students and scholars to delve into the compositional processes of these great composers and share them with the rest of the world.

Robert Walzel

Mozart was one of those composers who was successful in all genres, and we wanted to show the diversity of his music.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Stephen Sondheim

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player, as some composers are, the music may become flavorless and glib. And if you're not a very good pianist, you're limited to the same patterns.

Sivamani

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

Gian Carlo Menotti

My advice to composers is, 'Try to reach 90, and everyone will love you.'

A. R. Rahman

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

Christopher Young

Film composers are the most prolific music makers on this planet, and most of us are, like, losing our minds if we're doing five or more movies in a year.

Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I am disappointed that we were not able to find a way to reconcile the freedoms we hold so dear with the sanctity of the site.

Katrina Kaif

I will give my life to whoever in need, to any dear friend of mine.

Paolo Bettini

I found myself alone, so I preferred to attack. Ultimately I wasted a lot of energy and paid dearly for it in the end.

Joyce Smith

I lost two things dear to me this year. I lost my husband and I lost my house,

Doug Varone

I think it's insecurity, ... You have a need to see and touch someone you dearly love.

Nancy Bolin

It is so much fun and it is such a worthy cause. It is dear to my heart. It is a celebration.

Dave Morris

Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.

Evan Spiegel

Having been bullied growing up, it's something that's really near and dear to my heart. You probably won't have many friends on Snapchat if you're being a jerk.

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Mark French

People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community.

Mario Hernandez

People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously.

Kristin Chenoweth

Reese said she was really sad she didn't get to see me do Wicked . All of our friends say we are the other.

Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

Abdoulaye Wade

States have no friends, they only have interests.

Georg Cantor

started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he had published. He was merely a mouthpiece, inspired by God to communicate parts of the mind of God to everyone else.

Randy Thomasson

Our friends' weak language has stumbled and fallen.

Abdullah Gul

Our friendly relationship of mutual understanding with the United States will go on, ... One should not limit it to a motion.

Z. Sheppard

Our credo is friendship. It's the comradeship, more than anything else, that I enjoy.

Gary Asay

Representative Myers has been a true friend to the pork industry, has always been willing to listen to our concerns, and has been a leader on many important issues related to the pork industry.

James Gomez

Playing three sports he made a lot of friends. He's a popular kid on campus.

John McNeley

Reed has solidified things. He handles the ball. He gives us some strength and some athleticism.

Pita Sharples

Our options are to support whoever gives Maori a good deal, or otherwise we sit alone.

Carolina Herrera

Some of them are matte jersey, some of them are chiffon mixed with lace that gives the impression that they are very, very transparent but very, very light.

Roger Gerlach

Playing them at Carbondale, whether we won or lost, gives us a sense of the unknown, and likewise for them. It takes the mystery out of it.

Eric Maiwald

Management and security vendors were doing the same thing and suddenly all noticed it. Good management or good systems management gives you security benefits.

Paul Reddick

It is a proprietary system, and that gives us pause.

Carolyn Brown

It is a project that gives all of us hope. Our kids that come from all walks of life. When they come to us we have to take them where they need to go.

Bill Cowher

Jerome Bettis, he gives you something. He's a very special back. ... You see him running and jumping and jump-cutting, doing the things that he does.

Bill Cowher

Jerome Bettis, he gives you something. He's a very special back.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most perfect wines in the post-World War II era.

Bob Cox

This has been a tax of legendary volatility, making predictions especially confounding.

Jim Davies

This is a special class. They are all legendary in their own way,

Serena Williams

Legendary? I don't know. I'm just Serena.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She likes you, she just doesn't understand you.

Bette Davis

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Bette Davis

If everyone likes you, you're not doing it right.

P. James

That sucks. It's not a surprise because it's a conservative town that likes its country. But we need some variety.

Marcus Aurelius

I think he needs our pity who likes none

Scott Parker

I think they really like him and he likes them.

Herman Edwards

He likes trying to make the big kick,

Kurt Busch

He likes to talk a lot. We like to race.

Andy Roddick

He likes to go for his shots at the lines, ... I'm going to have to try to take it to him.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

Richard C. Armitage

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Jason Moore

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Dan Brown

For me, writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.

Billie Piper

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

Al Yankovic

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

David Bowie

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

Tom Daschle

I think that it is important for us to have an independent commission, as I've said now on several occasions, but it truly should be independent,

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Hilary Clinton

he could have made that statement several weeks earlier, in time for the holidays.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Brian Archer

It could be several weeks before we know the damage,

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

John Allen

That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.

Adam Giles

I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

Joan Chen

I worked a year in L.A. That was... a treat.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Reggie Lewis

I worked a lot on my ball-handling and outside shooting during the off season.

Maria Sharapova

I was very disappointed (at the U.S. Open), and I went out there and I worked really hard.

Brandon Sing

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did today.

David Peterson

It couldn't have worked out any better than it did,

Matt Kuchar

I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter.