Top 20 Messiaen's Quotes
#1. It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.
Charles Hazlewood
#2. No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
Olivier Messiaen
#3. When you're talking about a trade you're saying, 'Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?' That kind of debate is great for the game.
Roger Goodell
#4. A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.
Olivier Messiaen
#5. Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung's work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again ... in Messiaen, a feeling for the music's reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.
Donal Henahan
#6. It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.
Olivier Messiaen
#7. The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
Olivier Messiaen
#8. I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.
Matt Groening
#9. Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America.
Gray Davis
#10. It's not a diet, it's a way of life that teaches you better skills. For years, I felt like I could never have ice cream, but now I can eat ice cream occasionally!
Jennifer Hudson
#11. I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.
David Foster Wallace
#13. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#14. Trust your own eyes. Only you can determine what is happening in your life and what to do about it. The
Norman Fischer
#16. My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
Olivier Messiaen
#17. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.
Olivier Messiaen
#18. Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
Franz Grillparzer
#19. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
J.D. Salinger
#20. I wasn't a very athletic boy. I was once lapped in the long jump
Ronnie Corbett
