Palestrina Music Quotes & Sayings

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce

My acting gives me my self-worth. — Elizabeth Banks

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used. — David Gries

I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk band, you know? — Charles Hazlewood

Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work. — Debra Lawrance

I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick. — Lea Salonga

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs. — Edward Abbey

The bomb lives only as it is falling. — Iain M. Banks