Top 72 Gunther Quotes
#1. The real question here is what happens to you, Gunther. In many ways you're a useful fellow to have around. Like a bent coat hanger in a toolbox, you're not something that was ever designed for a specific job, but you do manage to come in useful sometimes.
Philip Kerr
#2. I live in the area where the Hollywood sign is. Every afternoon, I'll take a daily walk, and there are loads of tourists always on the street taking photos of the Hollywood sign. Occasionally, I'll still get recognized as 'Gunther,' which is okay with me.
James Michael Tyler
#4. You didn't take part, Benjamin?" Gunther asked, as he passed me a plate of cheese and cold meat.
"My brother doesn't play games," said Paul. "He's an aesthete. He sat by the window all afternoon with a funny look on his face: probably composing a tone poem.
Jonathan Coe
#5. What do elves consider a living wage?" Keith whispered to Gunther.
Gunther just shrugged. "Their own pair of pants?
Nicole Kimberling
#6. I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.
Philip Kerr
#7. If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
John Gunther
#9. I had no system of shooting as such. It is definitely more in the feeling side of things that these skills develop. I was at the front five and a half years, and you just got a feeling for the right amount of lead.
Gunther Rall
#10. The fact is that fairness is a human concept. The rest of the universe knows nothing of it.
Max Gunther
#11. Exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is great ... If you can find it.
Rita Gunther McGrath
#12. I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.
Gunther Schuller
#13. that you should be careful about putting yourself in risky situations, but was
Melissa Gunther
#14. Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations.
Gunther Schuller
#15. The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
John Gunther
#16. So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.
Gunther Schuller
#17. My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.
Gunther Schuller
#18. Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.
Gunther Schuller
#19. The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!
Gunther Schuller
#20. All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
#21. Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.
John Gunther
#22. Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.
John Gunther
#23. I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting and great musical periods in my life.
Gunther Schuller
#24. I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
Gunther Schuller
#25. [Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.
John Gunther
#26. One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.
John Gunther
#27. What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
John Gunther
#28. You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!
Gunther Schuller
#29. When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.
Philip Kerr
#30. Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.
John Gunther
#31. If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from
now, where all the musics of the worlds would be communicating with each other, there would be no more wars, there would be peace.
Gunther Schuller
#32. Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.
Gunther Schuller
#34. The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged,
Max Gunther
#35. If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.
Gunther Schuller
#36. As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.
Gunther Schuller
#37. And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.
Gunther Schuller
#38. Live while you live, then die and be done with.
John Gunther
#39. What they meant was that we, the young squirts, will shit in our pants the first time we get fired upon. Nonsense!
Gunther K. Koschorrek
#40. Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
John Gunther
#41. As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.
Gunther Schuller
#42. Many people think of me as a modernist, as a radical in music, you know, someone who's always sort of at the avant-garde of musics, but I'm also quite a traditionalist.
Gunther Schuller
#43. I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.
Gunther Schuller
#44. But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
Gunther Schuller
#45. Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.
Max Gunther
#46. It is unlikely that God's plan for the universe includes making you rich.
Max Gunther
#47. Looking round the room I found there were so many false eyelashes flapping at me that I was beginning to feel a draught.
Philip Kerr
#48. The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.
John Gunther
#50. With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.
Gunther Blumentritt
#51. The camera is one of the greatest liars of our time.
John Gunther
#53. Respect the colony as an organism rather than a mechanism with interchangeable parts.
Gunther Hauk
#54. Touch water in the West and you touch everything.
John Gunther
#55. It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
John Gunther
#56. My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globally, I think, has already peaked.
Gunther Oettinger
#57. The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.
Gunther Rall
#58. I have so much to do! And there's so little time!
John Gunther
#59. So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary.
Gunther Schuller
#60. There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
John Gunther
#61. France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn't care who knows it.
John Gunther
#62. Take it easy now - I've got first-class references from people who've been punched in the face by me. All of them were completely satisfied.
Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
#63. After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
Gunther Schuller
#64. Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
John Gunther
#65. If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.
Max Gunther
#66. The word animal is a derivative of the Greek word anima, which also means soul.
Gunther Hauk
#67. My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.
Gunther Schuller
#68. What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.
John Gunther
#69. That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.
Gunther Schuller
#70. I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly it was very clear that I wanted to be a musician of some sort.
Gunther Schuller
#71. Without the assumption that an advantage will be long-lived, the urgency of an organization to move quickly increases.
Rita Gunther McGrath
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