Berio Quotes

#1. All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.

Pierre Boulez

#2. Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

Alain Prost

#3. While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Clara Barton

#4. The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

Alan Shepard

#5. The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

Luciano Berio

#6. International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.

Henri La Fontaine

#7. We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

Franz Beckenbauer

#8. I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.

Mike Pesca

#9. I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

Patti Smith

#10. Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

Luciano Berio

#11. The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Victor Hugo

#12. In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

Luciano Berio

#13. There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

#14. In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

Victor Hugo

#15. Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

Gaston Bachelard

#16. His face darkens. He glares at me and I glare back. "Fine!" he yells. "I'm jealous! Are you happy now!"

And then he jerks is head toward mine and he kisses me. On the lips.

Jenny Han