Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Had Beethoven been able to carry out all his plans to fruition, then, for example, today we would have his opera Macbeth, a Faust, and many others. He would have contracted himself to write a whole series of operas.

Joshua Bell

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin or Beethoven, though Beethoven had a very difficult time writing melody, too.

Stephen Roe

In all the Beethoven literature, it's described as lost. There are lots of alterations, changes, revisions that no one has ever seen.

Brian Greene

What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.

Andre Previn

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

Evan Peters

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

Satyajit Ray

As a small boy I had read about Beethoven in the Book of Knowledge, now I was listening enraptured to his sonatas and symphonies.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Kristan Higgins

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

Rachel Platten

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

Herbie Hancock

I hope to do more movie scores, I hope to do more work in the orchestral setting, some more tours that are more in the line that classical musicians play.

Derek Williams

I'm a classically trained musician. Most of the time I'm playing solo classical guitar. It's really exciting to be able to meld with a group of musicians, express myself on a larger palette.

Todd Jones

I was lucky to get a couple by him. Because he's a pretty deadly hitter.

Max von Sydow

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

Shawn Chacon

I wouldn't say I needed it desperately. But after struggling the first couple of times you put more pressure on yourself.

Billy Beane

Kenny called me a couple days ago in Phoenix, ... He gave me a call.It took a lot for him to pick up the phone.

Dwyane Wade

Just the right place at the right time. Some nights are like that. I was able to get in a couple passing lanes and get some picks, but for the most part, it was just being in the right place at the right time.

Chuck Grant

Jon pitched a very good game, but there were two innings when we gave them five outs. We're a pretty young team, and we were missing a couple of players today, but that's no excuse for mental errors. We have to improve in that area, and it's my job to see that we do.

Mary Roach

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

Bryant Kitty

He wanted the ball, and the team wanted to give him the ball. He struggled a little in the first couple of innings, but he did a great job of throwing first-pitch strikes, and that's half the battle. He was all guts and glory.

Mark Bartelstein

He views it as a great opportunity. He thinks they are a couple pieces away from being a dynamic team.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Steve Earle

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Annelise Hoffman

I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

John Tracy

Well, you should be, ... You've been saying 'Yes' for three hours straight.

Maxwell Anderson

He spent hours and hours sifting through different sites.

Jennifer Johnson

I don't have time to spend hours looking for just the right things at a mall. I think I've been to a mall three times in the past year.

Troy Williamson

I wouldn't say frustrating. I would say more of a learning experience. I learned a lot of stuff.

Michael Wright

Jake has another year. He will learn how to wrestle. To be in the mix with better guys, we need to wrestle them.

Jody Conradt

Just when you think you've seen everything, you haven't. I've learned that during this season.

Tony Oller

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'.

Gerald Shields

Here's the deal. I want people reading. We are professionals, and we need to be reading and studying. We need to have a life-long learning mentality.

Pat Hill

He said, 'I think you can learn from others,'

Malcolm Deans

I think the lessons we learned this weekend were great, even though we didn't win.

Dick Jauron

What I learned is you better win. When you win, you're pretty smart. When you don't, you're not.

Dave Fullerton

I think what I am learning is to listen to my body.

Richelle Mead

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Rufus Wainwright

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Elizabeth Taylor

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Eli Broad

You always learn lessons in business.

Randall L. Stephenson

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

John Cage

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

J. Taylor

They go skiing in the morning and do school lessons in the afternoon.

Steve Lacy

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Cecilia Bartoli

Performing this music here, where he was born, in a way you feel 'Oh, this is what Mozart saw, this is what Mozart was breathing; the air, the atmosphere'.

Robert Morris

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Rich Sommer

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

Richard Perle

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

Rebecca West

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

William Jennings Bryan

The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future

Woodrow Wilson

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

William James

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

William James

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Robin Green

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robert Schumann

Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Michael Leunig

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Jason Anderson

I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

Amy Robach

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Lykke Li

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Jennifer Walker

It takes us a while to warm up, for some reason.

Eric Duncan

It still takes some getting used to. You walk around here and you see some pretty big names.

Karel Amaranth

It really takes a village. We're all responsible for all children.

Jane Smith

This kind of work takes too much time. Mine's all needlework.

Eido Carney

It's at least 15 years. It takes that long.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.

Graham Elliot

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

Mona Singh

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Nicole Richie

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Ashley Thomas

We took the practice, so much I shouldn't be worried.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Maggie Mueller

We took them lightly. And we shouldn't have.

Mark Roberts

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

Vince Young

I went through all my progressions, so I just took off with it.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

David Russell

I think they know we're not trying to poach here, we're just trying to help,

Margaret Spellings

I'm encouraged... we're on the right track, especially with younger students,

Ian Mckellen

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Ruth Rendell

I've done the big 12-city tours, and I'm never going to do that again - never. I was younger then. It wears you out, you know.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Liam Hemsworth

As the younger brother, I think you always have crushes on your older brother's girlfriends.

Daisy Ridley

Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.