Top 55 Lansky Quotes
#1. So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime.
Robert Lacey
#2. When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.
Paul Lansky
#3. If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.
Paul Lansky
#4. We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.
Bruce Lansky
#5. All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here ... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
Meyer Lansky
#6. I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.
Paul Lansky
#7. With a piece of classical music by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven, on first listening I'm referencing it with other pieces by them that I know. I think that most people do this - they listen to pieces through the filter of pieces they already know.
Paul Lansky
#8. The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.
Paul Lansky
#9. Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.
Meyer Lansky
#10. I don't think of my music as being about something.
Paul Lansky
#11. In Minnesota it's so cold some nights you have to wear two condoms.
Bruce Lansky
#12. I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.
Paul Lansky
#13. I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.
Paul Lansky
#14. It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.
Paul Lansky
#15. I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.
Paul Lansky
#16. The only place you're sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother.
Bruce Lansky
#17. Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured.
Paul Lansky
#19. A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars
Meyer Lansky
#20. All you have to do is recognize an opportunity.
Meyer Lansky
#21. What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?
Bruce Lansky
#22. I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.
Paul Lansky
#23. Very often, when you're listening to a piece for the first time, you're listening through a model of other pieces that you know. At a certain point, a piece becomes idiosyncratic and you start to understand it on its own terms.
Paul Lansky
#24. I'll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.
Bruce Lansky
#25. I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!
Paul Lansky
#26. I don't think I'll live long enough to shoot my age. I'm lucky to shoot my weight.
Bruce Lansky
#27. I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing. Now I go to practice slicing without swearing.
Bruce Lansky
#28. You will always be your child's favorite toy.
Vicki Lansky
#29. Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.
Bruce Lansky
#30. I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.
Paul Lansky
#31. I've seen this movie, you know. It always ends with them falling in love.
Kelly Moran
#32. Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.
Bruce Lansky
#33. I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.
Paul Lansky
#34. I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but it's basically the world I grew up in and there's no way in which I would have been able to survive in the so-called real world.
Paul Lansky
#35. Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.
Meyer Lansky
#36. My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.
Bruce Lansky
#37. I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.
Paul Lansky
#38. I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.
Paul Lansky
#39. I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.
Paul Lansky
#40. I never thought that I would write orchestra music, but in fact I did write a group of orchestra pieces.
Paul Lansky
#41. My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.
Paul Lansky
#42. Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.
Bruce Lansky
#43. I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.
Paul Lansky
#44. On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied.
Bruce Lansky
#46. The only thing in my bag that works is the bug spray.
Bruce Lansky
#47. Fathers and sons and brothers, all of us tall and strong and failing. But all of us trying.
Sam Lansky
#49. My ex-wife has never broken 150. I wish she would stop telling people I taught her how to play golf.
Bruce Lansky
#50. When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: 'Fetch!'
Bruce Lansky
#51. Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.
Paul Lansky
#52. I can't possibly go to school today," Michelle pouted, "I have nothing to wear." Her
Bruce Lansky
#53. Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf. I think it was my ex-wife.
Bruce Lansky
#54. It's always a thrill for me to see new versions of my pieces on YouTube.
Paul Lansky
#55. Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time.
Meyer Lansky
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