Arthur Honegger Quotes

#1. Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

James Gray

#2. Life isn't only about choice. Life is about how you provide value to your life and others.

Launa Rissadia

#3. I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

John F. Kennedy

#4. To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.

Arthur Honegger

#5. The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

Arthur Honegger

#6. There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.

Sri Aurobindo

#7. I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

Arthur Honegger

#8. Profound it is, dark and obscure;

Lao-Tzu

#9. Far from applying the teachings of their religion in our personal lives, we have a tendency to use them to reinforce our self-centered attitudes. We relate to our religion as something we own or as a label that separates us from others. Surely this is misguided?

Dalai Lama XIV

#10. And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

Tracy Morgan

#11. The public doesn't want new music.

Arthur Honegger

#12. Music is geometry in time.

Arthur Honegger

#13. Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

Warren Buffett

#14. Thirty-three. You?" Salena asked. "Thirty-six. You put us together and you get sixty-nine.

Anonymous

#15. Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#16. There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Arthur Honegger

#17. When I think of existence, I cannot help but wonder, "What is life, anyway?" Where do I fit in the grand scheme of life? What is the point of it, anyway? Is this a test - and if so, am I passing it?

C.J. Sinclair

#18. Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

Arthur Honegger

#19. A sensible speaker is a slave to making sense.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Arthur Honegger

#21. Secrets... Dexter a perfect example what... can happen with secrets.

Deyth Banger