Eric Whitacre Quotes

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

Eric Whitacre

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I want to make it clear that the lobbying sector does an important job. It is very useful to the government to hear the views of a broad range of groups to make sure we get the best.

Andrew Lansley

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Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

Anish Kapoor

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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Jeanne Moreau

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Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

Tony Campolo

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I think it's really important to be able to talk when something's wrong. I learned at a really young age that if you don't talk about it, it can drive you insane.

Mary-Kate Olsen

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I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

Deepak Chopra

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You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

Dean Kamen

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There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't achieve that in boxing, you're nothing.

Anthony Joshua

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Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

Alice Walker

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Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Philip Johnson

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There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.

Peggy Noonan

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