Marshall Brickman Quotes

Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.

Marshall Brickman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 25, 1939

Topics

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I've seen a lot of horror, but I'm not a horror guy.

John Carroll Lynch

HorrorSeenGuyLot

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I love about it is it delves into both sides of our cultural past, and it puts more of a human face on the Native Americans.

Matthew Settle

LoveGreatPastFaceKindHuman

I listen to a lot of old-school worship music.

Sonny Sandoval

MusicListenWorshipLot

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

Toni Morrison

MeWorldProblemsSingleGunsSense

Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.

Tony Levin

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If we are to make life into a pleasure rather than a struggle, then I would suggest that we have to start with our own mental attitudes.

Tom Hodgkinson

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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

GriefSomeoneNothingFreshChronic

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

Dolly Parton

LoveHeartGratefulDeathBroken

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.

Christopher Nolan

MindPerformanceTryWriteLast

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

Chris Martin

SongPerfectGoalWillTryNever

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

Brian Eno

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The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

Anne Sullivan

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