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Roscoe Mitchell Quotes

Music has a way of getting under your skin.

Roscoe Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1940

Topics

Music Skin Way Your Getting

Our audience for SCTV was older than today's moviegoers, and with the cost of making movies being what it is today, it's hard for the studios to take the kind of risks we took.

Today Risks Movies Kind Hard Cost

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

Live People Think Friends You Go

If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.

Home Election Stay Latinos Outcome

Patterns of repetition govern each day, week, year, and lifetime. 'Personal habits' is one term we use to describe the most common of these repeated patterns. But I say these habits are sacred because they give deliberate structure to our lives. Structure gives us a sense of security. And that sense of security is the ground of meaning.

Day Meaning Week Year Security Say

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

Change Law Game End Better Talking

I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

Michael Showalter

College Thinking Criticism Career

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.

Music Feel You Young Want Try

There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.

Juan Antonio Bayona

Great Political Tradition You Find

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

Fun Problem Go Fix Without Leave

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Delmore Schwartz

Roots Nervous Profound Order Must

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.

Science Mathematics Reading Impact

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

Father Me Feeling Selfishness Now

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