De Victoria Quotes & Sayings

No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse. — Charles Dickens

Is this different? Does love make lovemaking better? Does Nick feel this holy consummation, this wonder and beauty, this eternity, the way I do? Or is sex simply like this, designed by Nature to fool us all into multiplying? — Beatriz Williams

I want to take care of you — Sylvain Reynard

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music. — Victoria De Los Angeles

Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return. — Lindsey Davis

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one. — Victoria De Los Angeles

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me. — Victoria De Los Angeles

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see. — Victoria De Los Angeles

Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours. — Amy Tan

People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is. — Lightnin' Hopkins

I am always looking up towards the sky; that is how I am. — Jiroemon Kimura

With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much. — Victoria De Los Angeles

I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them. — Fernando Torres

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs. — Victoria De Los Angeles

Don't touch me. Don't tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how
soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don't. Don't pretend
you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every
word you say hurts even more. Let us just be friends, if we can start
there. Can't we? Can't we at least be friends? Get to know each
other a little? Before the wedding, and the bedding, when I will
have to take you as my lord and husband? — Melissa De La Cruz

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career. — Victoria De Los Angeles

With sales stabilizing, we should go back to positive price growth early next year. — David Lereah

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much. — Victoria De Los Angeles

In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment. — Victoria De Los Angeles

But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist. — Victoria De Los Angeles

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally. — Victoria De Los Angeles

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits. — Tomas Luis De Victoria

Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls. — Don DeLillo

Anyway, she sings like a mad tropical bird, and it's just a fondue of molten wanting and grieving and the sadness of the large naked swinging breasts and soft olive skin and everything that you wish you could remember and feel and know. — Nicholson Baker

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside. — Victoria De Los Angeles

Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage.
Naomi Littlebear — Cherrie L. Moraga

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family. — Victoria De Los Angeles

Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind. — Tomas Luis De Victoria

She hasn't had a book to read lately and that feeling of story rushes through her like a swoon. — Helen Humphreys

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. — Victoria De Los Angeles

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality. — Victoria De Los Angeles

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin. — Victoria De Los Angeles

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons. — Victoria Abril

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer. — Victoria De Los Angeles

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers. — Victoria De Los Angeles