Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Bell

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Had Beethoven been able to carry out all his plans to fruition, then, for example, today we would have his opera Macbeth, a Faust, and many others. He would have contracted himself to write a whole series of operas.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin King

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.

Kurt Masur

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.

Charles Hazlewood

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.

Daniel Barenboim

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

Evan Peters

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it soothing.

Bill Cowher

Jerome has been an inspiration to everyone, players and coaches. He's more than just a great player, he's the consummate team mate.

Edward Hirsch

James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.

Cory Sullivan

He is the leader on the team and a consummate professional. All the young guys watch him. He is a great guy to mirror.

Rod Carew

Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect.

Rodney Harrison

He's a consummate pro, ... I think I see him more than my wife.

John Schuerholz

He's a consummate professional and a man of very high character. When you have a man around like that, that's going to do nothing but help everybody else who is around him. He's had a very positive impact on the Braves' organization and this team.

Wayne Gretzky

His records speak for themselves. He's a consummate professional.

Johnny Miller

He was a consummate pro in the way he handled himself. I just loved him.

Ken Williams

He was very well liked and definitely a consummate journalist.

Frank Fish

Regarding the volume of weapons, it's directly in proportion to the number of students that we're training. We don't have a stockpile of weapons that we've just cached up here to use later for some foul purpose. These weapons are used specifically for this particular client.

Jake Barton

People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.

Tai Hui

People have more faith in Hong Kong's logistics. Low value products are shipped directly out of Shenzhen to the world, higher value products come out through Hong Kong. It's the guarantee of safety.

Chris Chiames

Our preference is to reach a resolution with the pilots directly and not involve outside parties.

Jeff Parrill

Our games start at 6 p.m.. Parents get off work and come directly to the games. Whether it's a hot dog or hamburger, this is where they get their dinner.

Wayne Patterson

Korean immigration to Mexico in the spring of 1905 led directly to the Japanese takeover of Korea six months later.

John Barrett

It is much worse if someone is working directly with the witnesses to shape their testimony.

Carol Woods

I think people here are omni-vigilant, ... Our guidelines are so strict. If a problem is uncovered, it goes directly to the auditor's office and is investigated.

Ted Dailey

It doesn't happen every year. It is directly related to the weather conditions.

Chris Lehane

Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought.

Justin Phinisee

Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond.

Henry Spencer

Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent.

Jim Anderson

Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important,

Joel Edgerton

Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.

Ilian Evtimov

Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays.

Carl Howe

People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial.

Mark French

People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community.

Mario Hernandez

People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Corin Tucker

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Robert Schumann

The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Eddie Vedder

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Adrian Grenier

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

Adrian Grenier

Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

Jim Thome

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

Chester Pitts

Our first year, we had 76 sacks, ... That's not very good. Playing like this, we'll be right back where we started.

Garry Houston

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Trent Yawney

Playing with poise under pressure is something you can't teach.

Jeremy Roenick

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

David Carr

Playing the Titans is always tough, whether you're favored or you're not favored,

Tyler Murovich

Playing there would give me a lot of opportunities.

Gary Waters

Playing Princeton is like pulling teeth. It's been that way for a long time.

Lindy Ruff

Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.

Linda Casey

I think it speaks to the convenience of convenience stores.

Randy Couture

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Anthony Romero

President Bush broke the law and lied to the American people when he unilaterally authorized secret wiretaps of U.S. citizens. But rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

Edward Abbey

The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

Brandon Ferguson

To be that disciplined about it speaks volumes.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Alfred North Whitehead

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Abu Bakar Bashir

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

Bryan Batt

If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.