Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graeme Murphy

Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.

Robert Moog

When I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business, ... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun.

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.

Sarah Brightman

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

Chuck Close

If you think about the way a composer would go in a room and score, let's say, the oboe's gonna play this note, the bassoon's gonna play that note, the french horn will play that note, the resultant sound, the combination of those notes makes kind of a chord, and I'm doing the same thing with color.

Michael Feinstein

I hear the name Gershwin and I think of the most incredibly talented, prolific, extraordinary composer of the century, and his music is as fresh and vital today as it was when he originally created it.

Joshua Bell

In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Stephen Colbert

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Sophie Marceau

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Sophie Marceau

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

Sophie Marceau

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Dr. Karmanova

This was opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge in the Spanish, French and German languages.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Tony Harper

Kids are kids and you never know what they're gonna do. They may have been a little leg-weary, and a little mentally drained. It could be a number of reasons. But I really like this group. They're smart kids. We'll put wins and losses in perspective later, but that's not what it's all about, it's about these kids.

Tony Martin

I think it's accurate. I think they've locked themselves into a situation where they're gonna be stuck for quite a while.

Patrick Corbett

He kept saying, 'I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm not gonna hurt you,' but all the while he had that pistol on my chest.

Randy Ready

Guys missed some pitches to hit. In the last two weeks, we really haven't. That's gonna happen.

Steve Nash

When you play with Kobe Bryant, the ball is gonna be with him most of the time, which is understandable.

S. Hughes

He reminds me a lot of Jimmy Johns at Brookhaven. He's got a tremendous arm, but he's gonna hurt you with his legs more than anything. He's gonna make his plays, I just hope he don't make the big plays on us.

Charles Green

He said he wanted to go fishing, and I'm gonna take him trout fishing. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take him to the mountains.

Brad Shaw

He's gonna have to wait for an opportunity.

Don Hutchinson

He's gonna be there until this thing turns around. He's showing the leadership a mayor should show.

Zakk Wylde

You never toot your own horn.

Gregg Wilson

The horns are really simple parts, just sound and texture. The parts layer, it's not a full-out assault.

Ron Schneider

The horn players have a pretty tight bond. He was the older brother. He was the oldest of the six of us, and he was probably the most serious of the six of us.

Ron Schneider

That is the perfect taps for a horn player.

Lou Adler

When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.

Natsuki Takaya

OH KYO KUN! Isn't it said that eating pink noodles turns you into a horny pervert?!

Levon Helm

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

Casey Affleck

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

Dennis Miller

I like the show [Factor] because it's horny, but it's not skeevy. Where else are you going to get that nowadays?

David Bernstein

He used no notes and yet his speech was passionate and moving. It was very impressive.

AJ Punjabi

We're offering a reminder service. If you sign up for our e-mail subscription list, the notes are going to automatically be in your e-mail box.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Ritchie Blackmore

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

Willie Nelson

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Joseph Polisi

In my view they're responsible for more than getting the notes right or the words right or the steps right. They have to be missionaries for the arts,

Stewart Rahr

I have yellow post-it notes plastered all over my office - they help me stay organized.

Peggy Cohen

The notes said they weren't suffering, they were just going to sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

Willie Parker

I was in the training room and that's the first time I saw ESPN. I stay away from it.

Willie Parker

I was in the training room and that's the first time I saw ESPN, ... I stay away from it.

Tarvaris Jackson

Just like old times. We were roommates for two years at Arkansas, too.

Greg Wilkinson

He could be sitting in a motel room somewhere.

Scott Drew

He just lightens up a room with that smile.

Susan Strasberg

I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.

Jim Boeheim

His side of the room was always neat,

Peter Max

When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.

Jim Martin

When he spoke, the room was quiet. It was very moving.