Landowska On Music Quotes & Sayings

I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records. — Warren G

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. — William Penn

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure. — Wanda Landowska

I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one ends seeing nothing anymore. One ceases to be aware. — Wanda Landowska

Baby girl, Cross is a tsunami. — Sylvia Day

The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood ... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own. — Margaret Chase Smith

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. — Aeschylus

I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder — Phil Plait

Well it's a gloomy, rainy old day to be here in London, but it could be worse; I could be in Saudi Arabia where men are men, and women are cattle. Can I say that? — Pat Condell

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work. — Cathy Guisewite

Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws, conforming to a secret technique, codified or not, and we discover that no one can become a virtuoso on the spur of the moment in this orchestra of 'noisemakers. — Wanda Landowska

Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be. — Chris Matakas

Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth! — Wanda Landowska