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George Crumb Quotes

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

George Crumb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 24, 1929

Topics

Nature Music Water Wind Birds Small

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

May Sarton

Alone Loneliness Solitude Self

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Love Hate People Democrats Something

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?

Matt Dillon

People Society Know Sometimes Say

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

John Shelton Reed

Heart Little Pieces Alabama Just

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

Shyam Selvadurai

Nature Me Growing Up Growing Duty

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Simon Mainwaring

Good Conflict Democracy Living Duty

If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.

RuPaul

People Stupid Eating Voting Look

Some of those 10, nine-year vets, they know some things that your typical college senior wouldn't. I've come across some guards in the NFL that know how to use their hands better than D-linemen in college. I guess they've learned from their enemies.

Mike Daniels

College Better Hands Know Enemies

Whenever a chef cooks for his own ego rather than his guests, he/she set themselves up for ridicule and failure. In the end, it's the service industry. Our goal is to make our guests happy through our cooking.

Johnny Iuzzini

Failure Service Cooking Happy Chef

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Best Silence Me Night House Late

This country is just that great that the opportunities are there for a Hispanic president, a black president or any other race for a president, yes.

Chris Tucker

Great Opportunities Black Country

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.

Pete Hegseth

Strength Peace War Weakness Side