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Jacques Ibert Quotes

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: french
Birth: August 15, 1890 - February 5, 1962

Topics

Collaboration Think Dream Would

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

Humor Song Think Stand Emotions Out

The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it's my favorite of this type of one-pot cookery.

American Africa Favorite Owes Type

I love doing things that people don't expect.

Mayer Hawthorne

Love People Doing Things Expect

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

Challenge Not Knowing Knowing See

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

Environmental Better You Place Earth

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

Work Time Depression Food Mom Hurt

I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.

Decision Best Think Negotiation

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Lie Sleeping Dogs

My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Family School Me Much Object Very

I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it's the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake - ever.

Service Mistake You Look Place More

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

History Responsibility Day Grow Say

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

You Explore Right Get Stuff

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