David Tudor Quotes

#1. Of the top 30 words that parents are calling kids' attention to ('look at the'), 12 are animals.

Jean Berko Gleason

#2. Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

David Tudor

#3. I think you can tell the difference between "swagger" and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.

Stephanie Beatriz

#4. If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

David Tudor

#5. We grew up, he thought. We didn't think it would happen, not then, not to us. But it did, and if I go in there it will be real: we're all grownups now. He

Stephen King

#6. The best way to advance in a career is to get great results while working with people.

Henry Cloud

#7. I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

David Tudor

#8. To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

Quentin Crisp

#9. He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.

Amish Tripathi

#10. I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

Jim DeMint

#11. It's not a photo I've seen before.

Paula Hawkins

#12. I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

David Tudor

#13. It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

Elizabeth Moon

#14. Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

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#15. The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

David Tudor

#16. I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.

Christopher Vokes

#17. I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

Manoj Bhargava

#18. Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

Prem Prakash

#19. The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

Cameron Sinclair

#20. Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and ... disposable.

David Tudor

#21. I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

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#22. Take the classic experiment of using ordinary feedback: just take the output of something and feed it back into the input. Those of us who do that have had really rich experiences. And it is obvious that that line of experimentation can continue.

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#23. Christians throughout history have affirmed that lifelong celibacy is a spiritual gift and calling, not a path that should be forced upon someone.

Matthew Vines