Lieder Quotes & Sayings

When I sit down, I find that it's much easier for me to want to consume a movie than to dip back into 20 or 40 or 60 hours of a television series. I think a great movie is really amazing. But, television does give you a larger canvas. — Frank Spotnitz

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs. — Michael Cerveris

I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set. — Clea Duvall

You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space. — Marion Nestle

She made a gesture of impatience. 'Do you never think of the future?'
'Not in your presence,' laughed Nick. 'I think of you - you - and only you. Didn't you know? — Ethel M. Dell

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing. — Cheryl Mendelson

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home. — Imtiaz Ali

She'd wanted to love her so desperately that she'd mistaken the need for her as love in itself. — Natasha West

Sure, sir, I will," I promised, "but I just want to tell you first that Jesus loves you." While — Craig Keener

A singer whose ear is singly directed to the melodic aspects of a Brahms lied or a Verdi aria lacks perception of the musical web from which the melodic line emerges; the composer's intent may remain unrealized. to sing Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, or Strauss lieder without an understanding of underlying harmonic structures is to vocalize on them, not to conceive of them musically and emotionally. — Richard Miller

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things. — Grenville Kleiser

All politicians lie;
some of them steal too.
30+ year Washington columnist — John A. McCormick

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin. — Ronald Reagan

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken. — Roald Amundsen

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

You are aggressive", says the emotional abusive. — Mark Brightlife

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert. — Betty Buckley

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there. — Alan Keyes

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top. — Yvon Chouinard

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

Perfection is death,' Anastasia said. 'The world is imperfect, but if it weren't, who would love it? — Michael Swanwick

German lieder is creepy music. That's why I specialize in it. — Carson McCullers

Regardless of religion (or lack thereof), lovers of speculative fiction will swallow up these provocative stories. - Erin O'Riordan, — Tim Lieder

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