Lallande Quotes & Sayings

I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer? — Howard Shore

The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection. — Denise Di Novi

The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art ... these dismal moods have very little compensation. — Edgar Degas

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. — Ernest Gaines

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely. — Jane Smiley

Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ... — Stephen Richards

Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today. — Renee Fleming

It is nice when people recognize me and approach me in the street. Anyone who says they don't like that is lying. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic