Gordon Shumway Quotes

#1. Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

Ned Rorem

#2. Never quit, we are always 3 feet from Gold.

Sharon Lechter

#3. Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right.

Vint Cerf

#4. Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: they distract the mind from food!

Agatha Christie

#5. Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think it's that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.

Betsy Lerner

#6. I don't aim for money. Money never has or will be my motivation. I

Luis D. Ortiz

#7. Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it's not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#8. As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

Barry Webster

#9. When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

Dave Brubeck

#10. Misdirection only comes from someone that has lost their way.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?

Ann Voskamp

#12. In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Georges Duhamel

#13. I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

Kool Keith

#14. Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

George Bernard Shaw

#15. The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

Vincent Massey