Ildar Quotes & Sayings

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work. — Ildar Abdrazakov

I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking ... You need to clear your brain. — Ildar Abdrazakov

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. — Scott McClellan

Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don't use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
And, above all, poetry is compacted metaphor or simile. Such metaphors, like Japanese paper flowers, may expand outward into gigantic shapes. Ideas lie everywhere through the poetry books, yet how rarely have I heard short story teachers recommending them for browsing.
What poetry? Any poetry that makes your hair stand up along your arms. Don't force yourself too hard. Take it easy. Over the years you may catch up to, move even with, and pass T. S. Eliot on your way to other pastures. You say you don't understand Dylan Thomas? Yes, but your ganglion does, and your secret wits, and all your unborn children. Read him, as you can read a horse with your eyes, set free and charging over an endless green meadow on a windy day. — Ray Bradbury

I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture! — Ildar Abdrazakov

For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me. — Ildar Abdrazakov

I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west. — Ildar Abdrazakov

I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach. — Ildar Abdrazakov

Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action. — Hannah Arendt

Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name. — Ildar Abdrazakov

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm. — Robyn Hitchcock

It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong. — Miuccia Prada

I still feel really hopeless sometimes. I don't like my job. And I've stopped thinking about finding another one. And, even though I hardly ever think about Sam anymore, it still seems impossible that I might have something like that again. A relationship, I guess. — Rainbow Rowell

I did nothing that I might not have done better. — Richard Baxter

Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it because he'd had a lot of people point it out to him over the years and he saw no reason to disagree with them except the obvious one which was that he liked disagreeing with people, particularly people he disliked, which included, at the last count, everybody. — Douglas Adams

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. — Mark Rothko

Hey Baby. Baby? You're kidding me, right? I was trying it out. No? No. — Cassandra Clare

I'm one-fourth Tatar and three-fourths Bashkirian. — Ildar Abdrazakov

Those born rich are harder to please than those born poor. — John Updike

It seems to me that more plots have been imagined than really exist. — Umberto Eco

I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb. — Sienna Miller