Schnittke Concerto Quotes & Sayings

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it. — Ian Anderson

Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity. — Erin McKeown

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' — Alfred Schnittke

Children with loving parents who enjoy them, play with them, and offer guidance and suggestions as they explore their environment will be healthy, emotionally well-adjusted, and psychologically advanced. — Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Neither light nor heat could withstand it; to gaze into that nullity and to comprehend its scope was to have one's humanity snuffed. Only the inhuman thrived in out there in deep black. — Laird Barron

There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar — Stormie O'martian

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw