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John Tavener Quotes

When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: british
Birth: January 28, 1944 - November 12, 2013

Topics

Music Beautiful Art Simple American

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.

Goals Day Simple Safety End

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

Good Book Think Thinking American

A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.

People Me Career Dream Achieve True

'Junkhearts' is a great story.

Great Story Great Story

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

Focus Quality Mistress Fickle Like

It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.

Time Focus People Media You Tennis

The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

Feel Moments Place Always Come Like

I'm a pansy when compared to the men and women of the United States military.

Women Men Military Men And Women

People come to L.A. because they're chasing that dream of a better life. That's why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people who had a dream of being something else. And that proved to be true.

Life People Me Thought Better Dream

If Okada, if a Tanahashi, Michael Elgin, The Young Bucks, if they want to have a ,the place they can find me is the WWE. I'm going to be busy making my way to the top of that food chain.

Food Me Busy Find Place Young

I love meeting people.

Love People Meeting I Love

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

Alone Men Man Red Memory People

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