Del Tredici Quotes

#1. Good bye AEHS. You suck. I hate you. And yet ... Somehow I'll miss you too.

Meg Cabot

#2. The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

James Newman

#3. I've never had a plan for the future.

Paul Shaffer

#4. Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

David Del Tredici

#5. I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

David Del Tredici

#6. I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

Sam Sheppard

#7. Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

Fred Allen

#8. Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

David Del Tredici

#9. You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.

Carrie Vaughn

#10. ...how crazy things have to get before I ended up drooling all over a strait jacket with my name on it at Happyville Manor.

Gayla Drummond

#11. A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

David Del Tredici

#12. I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

John Newton

#13. I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

David Del Tredici

#14. When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

David Del Tredici

#15. Most people went and sat down in front of the television. Others stared into space, others talked in low voices to themselves, but who has not done the same at some moment in their lives?

Paulo Coelho