Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jake Wien

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Earl Blumenauer

The same way we were talking about the arts being part of the infrastructure,

Naomi Grabel

I've spent 15 years in arts marketing and arts management in the US and the Sydney Opera House really is the pinnacle.

Jet Li

I've said more than once that this will be my last martial arts film.

Craig Newmark

I started a simple list of what I thought were cool events, arts and technology stuff.

Robert Raines

I soon see the day where the symphony and the opera company will be doing a full opera with a full symphony orchestra in the new Performing Arts Centre,

Jon Favreau

I used to be in arts and stuff. But I never was encouraged to...I was...aimed toward the sciences.

Cheryl Ferguson

This is a wonderful way to help children understand that the arts are all inter-related. This artwork has evolved from the music they have heard played, how they thought and felt during that music.

Jenny Taylor

This is a true fine arts show, not an arts and crafts show. In the scope of today's world, fine art is expanding.

David Rose

As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

Mark Baldwin

As Britain's only large-scale touring contemporary dance company, Rambert performs on some of the largest stages this country has

David Greenwood

As a company, obviously, it would be grossly inappropriate for us to make theological pronouncements of any kind.

Brendan Gold

BA is a profitable company not one in crisis. It must be remembered that pensions are deferred earnings.

Thomas Miller

As often happens, the builder's insurance company wanted to see what evidence would come in.

Richard Loth

As long as you understand that this is a heavy PR job, it can be informative. You can get a good idea of what the company is doing.

Craig Marks

As one of the first popular music magazine to embrace the digital world, we're excited to be working with the top company in the space. We've got every musical genre covered for the online masses, with the news, photos, interviews and silly questions that have made us the must-read for music lovers everywhere.

Mary Perry

Rainbow Tribe is the complete opposite of the normal, cookie-cutter dance company that people are used to seeing.

Marshall Front

Prince is trying to put his stamp on the company,

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Beadsie Woo

The state does seem to have a problem with people wanting to work full time, but then taking part-time employment.

Michael Caine

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Jay Stewart

The system can't work when you don't have full disclosure.

Jarvis Cocker

The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio.

Claron McFadden

I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag. I was wild and full of unharnessed energy, but I was around all these seasoned performers like Rita Cullis. It was as if they were all in slow motion.

Sara Banaszak

The offshore pipelines are one of the last things we tend to get full assessments on because it requires some underwater assessment.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Jennilee Huddleston

After playing so hard last weekend, we were physically and emotionally drained. The day off will help us get back to full strength.

John Schneider

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

Patricia Myers

Right now we're operating on a one-party system and it isn't working,

Bruce Beresford

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Paul Bell

Toward the end of the year, sales will revive with the release of the new Windows Vista operating system.

Douglas Adams

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

Claire Danes

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

David Cronenberg

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

Anna Netrebko

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

Renee Fleming

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Rudy Vallee

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

Marco Beltrami

I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

Joey Fatone

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

Leonard Slatkin

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

Placido Domingo

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

Rashida Jones

I'm terrified of performing live.

Liz Phair

I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

Monica Keena

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

Carrie Fisher

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

Michael Davis

TI is performing well but it is being unfairly tainted,

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

George R. R. Martin

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Cindy Sheehan

We have to stop it as soon as possible.

George Herbert

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Charles Bukowski

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

Aleister Crowley

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Alfred Schnittke

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Dave Brubeck

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

Andre Previn

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony and let your senses burst with joy.

Michael Tilson Thomas

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

Michio Kaku

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

Sharon Long

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.