Richard Rodgers Quotes

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

Richard Rodgers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 28, 1902 - December 30, 1979

Topics

MusicPeopleTheatreReachAudience

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

Michael J. Fox

GoalsMeFindGoWillWay

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

Steve Earle

MusicTimeCareLongCountry

What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been an anchor and a force of stability and consolation throughout my life. I think that's good news.

Tracy K. Smith

LifeGoodPoetryMeBelieveThink

God is not asking you to be anything other than what he's made you, as long as you submit to how he has made you, to how you relate to other people who he has made different than you.

Tony Evans

GodPeopleLongYouAnythingAsking

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Tom Peters

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As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.

Tom Tancredo

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But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Tom G. Palmer

ChoicesBelieveRightReasonNormal

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

Roland Gift

MyselfSelfWorthNewNowWheel

I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.

Ron Stallworth

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I didn't do any writing seriously until I was in my mid-twenties. But I've never really thought of myself as doing anything else. I've always wanted to write.

Ruth Rendell

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I love the 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' I love everybody. I loved every single person in the Cosby house, I loved every single person who went to Hillman.

Jay Ellis

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I wanted to direct more than I wanted to act. And I found I couldn't do everything.

Dinah Manoff

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