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Simon Rattle Quotes

In my mid-twenties, I was with a conducting career, but I had never been to university and I wanted to. There were things I wanted to study in depth. I also wanted to see if I could survive without music.

Simon Rattle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: January 19, 1955

Topics

Music Survive Career Never See

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

Joel McCrea

Mother Business First Chickens Eggs

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

John Muir

Nature Beauty Power Tree Mountain

It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.

Jeff Dunham

Art Stand Strange Never Out Days

The good thing about Twitter is that there's not so much of a wall between you and your fan base. They can interact with you, and it makes them more endeared to you when you interact with them. It's really fun in that way.

Sinqua Walls

Good Fun You Wall Way More

God is the perfect poet.

Robert Browning

God Poetry Perfect Poet

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

Mike Gallagher

School King Learn Back Go Fair

We would write scripts, like for 'Shutterbugs.' Then when we shot it, everyone just came up with new stuff. We've definitely learned how to do it better as we've gotten along. So basically, that's how it went. We just go in with ideas and try to figure out funny stuff while we're there.

Jason Woliner

Funny Ideas Better Go New Try

As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

Jason Isbell

Work Think You Done Never Anything

The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way he paints pictures and speaks and talks. It's almost like talk-singing. Paul Simon does that very well as well. He's a huge influence of mine.

Jon Bellion

Day Influence Picture Feel You Way

I think, in the eyes of a lot of circles, especially within football, I'm the soft guy. But I'm fine with being the soft, healthy guy.

Chris Borland

Eyes Football Think Healthy Within

The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

Christine Lagarde

Service Financial Others Serve

Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Time See I See Like Photo Every