Mstislav Rostropovich Quotes

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: March 27, 1927 - April 27, 2007

Topics

BeautyGreatArtSoulProgress

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Angela Carter

LifeDeathLife And DeathNothing

Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.

Michael Cudlitz

HomeDayLaughComedyYouImportant

Memory is revisionist, you know. 'The Houston Kid' was based on true things that happened. But I know - from writing a memoir that I've been working on for awhile - that reconstructing memory is revisionism.

Rodney Crowell

MemoryWritingYouKnowTrueKid

Trade is not the cause for unemployment. In fact, the biggest drivers for unemployment are innovation and increased productivity. It has nothing to do with trade.

Roberto Azevedo

InnovationNothingUnemploymentTrade

You know how many people would give up their life to get in one NBA game or NFL game or get one fight? Just to do something that has been a dream and they've aspired to do for their whole life - can you imagine what that means for a person?

Roy Jones Jr.

LifeFightPeopleGameYouDream

In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.

Jules Verne

PeopleFindProjectCostWorking

The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Chet Baker

MePlayDrummerInspiredLikeHe

People use the guise of art, and artistic expression, to do all kinds of hateful things. It's like Trump and everybody else using the guise of humor to say hateful things, the excuse being, 'I was just being funny.'

Luvvie Ajayi

FunnyArtHumorPeopleSayThings

Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.

Lillie Langtry

HateDogsFeedLikeHearThem

I love 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

Kenneth Lonergan

LoveKindCloseThirdEncounters

A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.

Kenneth Lonergan

GoodThinkComedyDramaTrueReal

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

Kenzaburo Oe

MountainNightReadingTreesForest

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