De Victoria Quotes

#1. Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.

Tomas Luis De Victoria

#2. I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish.' Homer, The Odyssey

Andy Miller

#3. This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#4. In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#5. Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#6. But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#7. I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#8. My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Victoria Abril

#9. Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.

Tupac Shakur

#10. With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#11. And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#12. But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#13. I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#14. I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#15. And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#16. I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy.

Giuliana Rancic

#17. So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#18. Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#19. But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#20. Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#21. After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#22. Anyway, she sings like a mad tropical bird, and it's just a fondue of molten wanting and grieving and the sadness of the large naked swinging breasts and soft olive skin and everything that you wish you could remember and feel and know.

Nicholson Baker

#23. Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

Tomas Luis De Victoria

#24. Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#25. Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.

Wayne Dyer

#26. God's the reason for everything noble and fine and heroic.

Aldous Huxley

#27. To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#28. I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

Spike Jonze