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It's all flags, fireworks, family, food and fun That's July Four July Five, the fun is done The fireworks are no more
You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.
There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today.
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.
Jim Rohn has been my favorite speaker for many years. He has changed my life for the better and can change yours too.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
Believe me, my sole purpose is to make as much money as possible; for after good health it is the best thing to have.
I always compare myself to what I did last, so I've got to try and beat what I did last. I'm always upping my own bar.
They should go back to the medieval tradition, which is that the nave of the church is always used for local business.
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.
Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.
Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices.
He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.
It's not easy for you, Dad You seek your own space You slope off to watch telly But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face
Dad: someone who hopes his son will turn out just like him, and who is afraid his daughters will meet someone who did.
This card is sent to cheer you As you're confined to bed I'm sure it'll feel all worthwhile In the happier days ahead.
If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining.
You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.
Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.
Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.
The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.
To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.
The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.
You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.
There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.
Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.
We can reveal that John's 85 That's a well known fact Telling Kathy's age would be a breach Of the Official Secrets Act
Be pleased to look forward, And pleased to look behind, Count today, your 40th, and each birthday With a grateful mind.
This is a Happy Birthday card, Made with lots of love by me It's to a Very Important Parent A VIP... ...and you are she