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Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Igor Stravinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: composer
Nationality: russian
Birth: June 17, 1882 - April 6, 1971

Topics

Music Relationship I Am Book Reading

That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure, and I would still play music even if people didn't like it. But it means a lot when it connects to people and they enjoy it. But it's funny: you get criticism as much as you get praise. It kind of evens out after awhile.

Funny Music Myself People Criticism

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'

Hope Teacher Walk Day School Saying

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

World Realistic Shoot Population

After a lifetime of feeling at home in my plus-size body, I was a 27-year-old having self-esteem issues. Clothes shopping stopped being fun and became a chore; I couldn't wear the curve-showing styles I loved without Spanx - and I worried that my new body would affect my training.

Michelle Carter

Home Training Fun Shopping Loved

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Health Time Fitness Appreciate Two

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

Fool Champion Think Generation Die

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

Style Darkness American Literature

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

Time Problems Wrong Said Difficult

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

Leader Great Words Problem Setbacks

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Work Community Know United Much

Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!

Claudio Ranieri

Sometimes Manager One Thing Says

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

Brian Ferneyhough

Music Listening New Sound Pretty

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