Penderecki Quotes

#1. The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

Albert Camus

#2. Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Kahlil Gibran

#3. And what exactly is it that you do?"

"I do pretty much what the name implies. I shoot trouble.

Bard Constantine

#4. But I respected his instincts as a killer and I liked the honesty of the man. And who was I to judge? I'd F'ed a necromancer and killed a Pope within the space of a week.

Mark Lawrence

#5. The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

Leon Edel

#6. If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

Jonny Greenwood

#7. When I saw the Penderecki concert in London, in '92 or '93, I thought there were speakers in the room. It was just strings. But I could hear these kind of buzzings and rumblings, and I was like, 'Where is this all coming from?' And that was just better, to my ears. Odder, stranger, more magical.

Jonny Greenwood

#8. Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress.

Julia Stiles