John Luther Adams Quotes

#1. The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.

Sun Tzu

#2. Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha.

Heinrich Heine

#3. Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. In particular, he named three kinds of troubles that could beset a person with a nervous temperament: poor weather, isolation or idleness, and stressful events.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#5. Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

John Luther Adams

#6. Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

Betty Williams

#7. If one is to steal, steal from the forgotten masters. The

Dan Simmons

#8. Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#9. My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

John Luther Adams

#10. Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

John Adams

#11. Where the eye divides, the ear connects.

John Luther Adams

#12. I don't have much of an ego, but I have a great deal of confidence!

Raymond Burr

#13. I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

John Luther Adams