Dodecaphonic Music Quotes

#1. [A]ny musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

Pierre Boulez

#2. I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Steve Coogan

#3. The common misery of destitution would have made a bitter mockery of a marked insistence on social differences. Gaspar

Joseph Conrad

#4. Don't stop til you get to the top. And then break out the sledge hammer and keep on going

Juliet C. Obodo

#5. It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

John Steinbeck

#6. The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

Salvador De Madariaga

#7. Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.

Frederick Lenz

#8. I love my sacred self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

Bil Keane

#10. You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson

#11. You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Rick Riordan

#12. Loneliness itself is material for sacrifice. The very longings themselves can be offered to Him who understands perfectly. The transformation into something He can use for the good of others takes place only when the offering is put into his hands.

Elisabeth Elliot

#13. The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Joan Chen

#14. Did her dragon nature make her more violent? She'd never fantasized death for anyone before. Then again, she'd never met someone like Ferrin.

Chris Cannon

#15. One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Jean Rostand

#16. It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

Thomas De Quincey