Arvo Quotes

#1. People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

Gavin Bryars

#2. I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

Pablo Neruda

#3. I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

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#4. Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths.

Tanjlisa Marie

#5. I love the person I've become, because I fought to become her.

Kaci Diane

#6. Analogies are lies grown-ups tell." "Why?

Brent Weeks

#7. There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Robert De Niro

#8. A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.

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#9. The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

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#10. Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

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#11. Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

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#12. Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

Jennifer Lopez

#13. You can kill people with sound. And if you can kill, then maybe there is also the sound that is opposite of killing. And the distance between these two points is very big. And you are free
you can choose. In art everything is possible, but everything is not necessary.

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#14. Fate is a great accident.

Arvo Ylppo

#15. I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

George Ryan

#16. Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

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