Quotes About Antonin Dvorak

#1. Death is the start of a beginning, life is the start of the end, and the cycle continues forever."

AFTERLIFE - TIM I GURUNG/AUTHOR

Tim I. Gurung

#2. The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

Brother Lawrence

#3. The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

Antonin Dvorak

#4. I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.

Antonin Dvorak

#5. We don't really need great amounts of anything. We just need a little of something great.

Aisha Mirza

#6. Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.

Antonin Dvorak

#7. You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

Tommy Lee Jones

#8. I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#9. I hate getting bored.

Edward Hall

#10. Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Antonin Scalia

#11. To err is human, to eat human is bear.

Jim Kamp

#12. The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

Robert Kennedy

#13. Dreamers do not believe in power, they believe in imagination the source of creativity.

Euginia Herlihy

#14. Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Antonin Dvorak

#15. A church begins to die when it says, 'They were just children.

Wess Stafford

#16. I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda.

Maeve Binchy

#17. I have composed too much.

Antonin Dvorak

#18. In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

Antonin Dvorak

#19. It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

Antonin Dvorak