Tredici Quotes & Sayings

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful. — David Del Tredici

There will be nothing to say something terrible has happened, but they will know it all the same. Nothing will be found. Not a trace of the girl in the midnight dress. — Karen Foxlee

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused. — Jodi Picoult

I've always been a composer dependent on texts. — David Del Tredici

I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public. — George Carlin

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. — David Del Tredici

I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

The building was crowded with men and women packing stuff into boxes and bags, leather stuff, nylon, canvas, and rubber stuff, with brass rings and silver chains, steel buckles and studded straps. Elephant stuff. — Richard Schmitt

I nearly said something, but then thought better of it. It doesn't pay to publicly point out the failings of the person providing your paycheck. — Donald G. Firesmith

Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. — Jerry Bridges

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. — David Del Tredici

We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse. — Frank Luntz

Love is magical, it changes and brightens up your world! — Allan Rufus

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments. — David Del Tredici

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents. — David Del Tredici