Peter Asher Quotes

#1. I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

Robert Barron

#2. I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Peter Asher

#3. Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.

Peter Asher

#4. For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

Jody Williams

#5. Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

Peter Asher

#6. The best music of any era lasts well, I think.

Peter Asher

#7. Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

Leonard Bernstein

#8. Everybody loves classical music they just don't know about it yet.

Benjamin Zander

#9. I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.

Peter Asher

#10. Spring is the season you can feel blossom inside of you before you ever see it blossom outside.

Toni Sorenson

#11. Conservatism
hard work
saving one's money
looking neat and gentlemanly. It was such an Eveless paradise, that.

Theodore Dreiser

#12. The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth

Thomas Paine

#13. Aramus says you may, but you are not to perform any procedures on Avion or anyone else." "Darn, no game of Operation? And here I was wondering if Avion would beep if the tweezers touched the side.

Eve Langlais

#14. In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

Peter Asher

#15. It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

Darrell Huff

#16. I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

Colin Baker

#17. Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

Peter Asher

#18. A first edition of Peter Pan appeared gift-wrapped on my bed - Lucy admitted that Asher had drafted her to help deliver that present.

Corrine Jackson

#19. In general when you fall in love with an artist and their music, the plan is a fairly simple one.. get people to go and see them, and make a record that you think properly presents their music to the public and some of which you can get on the radio.

Peter Asher

#20. The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

Ray Stannard Baker

#21. The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

Thomas Paine

#22. I could have been known for something terrible.

Sarah Hughes

#23. Well, for the reasons I mention above, although I am not sure the live shows were really so brilliant - but nobody could hear much so perhaps it did not matter! It was certainly a very exciting time for us all.

Peter Asher

#24. The rules and limitations that once prevented accidents now prevented creativity.

Stanley McChrystal

#25. Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

Peter Asher

#26. I started to find that music was something that really brought a lot of joy into my life, and it was sort of cool because I discovered that I had a gift for it, too. So the stuff I would listen to I could play along, I could sing along.

Corey Taylor