Conformidade Priberam Quotes & Sayings

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes. — Sergei Prokofiev

Live fuller life while you can still breathe. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations. — Barack Obama

In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very complex, and very challenging. In order to play in fifteen, or eleven, or seven or even five, you have to have mastered that time in order to be able to be free with the music. — John McLaughlin

Fresh proof of the risks you run in writing about players, and of the advisability of not standing to leeward of their self-esteem when one has had the misfortune to wound it in the slightest degree. When you criticize a singer, you do not have his colleagues up in arms against you. Indeed, they generally feel that you have not been severe enough. But the virtuoso instrumentalist who belongs to a well-known musical organization always claims that in criticizing him you are 'insulting' the whole institution, and though the contention is absurd he sometimes succeeds in making the other players believe it. — Hector Berlioz

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves. — T-Pain

Bedazzled? What the heck was a bedazzle? — Kasie West

If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing. — Arthur Godfrey

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long. — Joan Severance

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. — Aristotle.

I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait. — Rolf Harris

I think people are getting more and more -unfortunately - inured to violence. People are less sensitive to things they should wake up about. — Tony Todd

There was nothing she could say to them
nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason was not a weapon any longer? It was a realm she could not enter. — Ayn Rand