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Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: hungarian
Birth: May 28, 1923 - June 12, 2006

Topics

New York World Dream New Jazz Rock

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

Work Great Best Decisions You Going

In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.

Goals Morning Looking Wake Up Nice

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Power Time Action Chance Forward

Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye.

Positive Quality People Eye Look

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Dark Write See Big Away Object

No one should make the mistake of thinking that three or four movies are going to change their fate.

Change Mistake Thinking Fate Three

Conducting is more difficult than playing a single instrument. You have to know the culture, to know the score, and to project what you want to hear. Some conductors are well prepared but cannot transmit their ideas to an orchestra, and others are good communicators but have nothing to transmit because they are not absorbed enough in the score.

Good Culture Ideas Enough You Know

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Woman Thinking Feeling Accept Most

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

First Mastery Order Steps Subject

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

History Support Team You Teammates

I bring up 'The Heist,' and you can almost cut that record down the middle between songs where the beat came first and the words came second, and songs where the words came first and the beat came second. It can start with a vibe, a beat that drives a story, or it can start with a story and then trying to identify the tone to tell that story right.

Words Start Story Trying You Down

Arcade-game characters have no free will. They're programmed to do one thing day in and day out - they don't have a choice in the matter.

Day Free Choice Free Will Matter

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