Balakirev Composer Quotes & Sayings

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements. — Dweezil Zappa

It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church ... With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh. — William Lloyd Garrison

We keep hearing from [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton and Washington Republicans that they're searching for these mythical moderate rebels. It's like a purple unicorn. They never exist. These moderate rebels end up being jihadists. — Ted Cruz

There was nothing I wished I'd said to him. There was nothing I wished I hadn't said. — C.J. Flood

It is the heart that is important. — Nichiren

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When that piece makes sense, everything else starts to. — Jenny Han

We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. And in ancient thought the name itself has power, so that to know someone's name is to have a certain power over him. And in some societies, as you know, there was a public name and a real or secret name, which would not be revealed to others. — Katherine Paterson

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it. — Brian Setzer