Peter Sculthorpe Quotes

#1. Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

Beverly Cleary

#2. I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

Peter Sculthorpe

#3. Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

James Cook

#4. The inspiration for my work comes from areas spanning the stark regions of Newfoundland to the lush and fertile valleys of the South. The landscapes offer me form; the people I've met in these places give them color.

Peter Sculthorpe

#5. And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

John Milton

#6. I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.

Peter Sculthorpe

#7. Those who are backslidden are much more hardened in their sin than they were before. They are like iron which being once heated and cooled again becomes much harder than before.

Jonathan Edwards

#8. There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.

Lin-Manuel Miranda