Top 36 Quotes About Hamelin
#1. The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to detect its false notes because in our case the flute is being played by the rats.
Dimitris Mita
#2. Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. 'Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.
Emile Zola
#3. Foreword of my book: The Pawn
"It is being said that time and space could be tied to their creator's stance of what they are to him or her. It can possibly be perceived by those who become the receivers of this viewpoint as something different or the same." (Claire Manning Writer/Author 2016)
Claire Hamelin Manning
#4. I don't record for my own glory.I mean, of course part of it is for career advancement, but more importantly, I want some of that repertoire - as much of it as possible - to remain and enter pianists' consciousness and, hopefully, into the standard repertoire.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#5. Very rarely do I work on mechanics now. I tend to solve problems within the music itself.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#7. The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.
David Foster Wallace
#8. My father ran the gamut: a favorite of his was Josef Hofmann, but there was also Friedman, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Lhevinne, Moiseiwitsch, Paderewski, etc.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#9. It's the vision of the composer that we have to determine, and not the absolute mathematical adherence of the score. In my experience, there have been occasions where I feel that a composer has not notated something as they meant to have it represented.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#10. I don't listen to recordings very much now, to be perfectly honest. I listened to them a lot when I was younger.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#11. As far as the style, I can't say there is one definite style. I probably feel most comfortable writing in a tonal idiom, with considerable, if not extreme chromaticism.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#12. As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with suspicion.
Stella Young
#13. There's a substantial portion of my recorded repertoire that was learned for the recording sessions, and then basically forgotten. I wouldn't say it's the majority, but it's a fairly good chunk of it.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#14. And after all, everyone needs a few flaws to make them real.
Helen Simonson
#15. For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados, hurricanes, dust bowls, epidemics, academics, lawyers, and politicians.
Markham Shaw Pyle
#16. When you speak, your words echo across the room. When you write, your words echo across the ages" Bud Gardner
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Claire Hamelin Manning
#17. 1980 Fun Fact #1: Mattel releases the Intellivision video game console. Our video game addiction began with the likes of "Baseball," "Football," and "Night Stalker.
Tom Harvey
#18. A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.
Nels Fredrick Solomon Ferre
#19. I think anybody who's willing to really sink their teeth into a work like the Hammerklavier, which is a very interesting, different experience, should look instead at something like the Sonata by Paul Dukas, which, in my opinion, is a real marvel.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#20. The process of putting intangible thoughts into an imperfect system of notation - which is difficult enough, depending on your ideas - acquaints you with how best to express your ideas so that it is as clear as possible to the performer.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#21. Then there's the kind of zombie I've become now: the one who has lost everything - his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.
Adam Silvera
#23. A mission that comes from the heart to promote these things and to encourage composers to write, then of course they should do it. And there are more than a few pianists these days who do this, fortunately.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#24. I think one of the reasons [Nikolai] Medtner hasn't had a chance is that his music needs very, very committed performances. If you play his works passively, the juice of his music is really not going to be extracted - it's simply not going to come out.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#25. If I didn't have the reverb I'd be an unhappy camper. So I want reverb in my monitor mix. Reverb and a good level in my monitor and I'm all set.
Paul Taylor
#26. I never considered myself more able than anybody because I had problems just like anybody else. When I practiced, I solved problems, like any of my fellow students. I looked at my own work, and looked ahead, with blinders, almost.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#27. I am not lost, but I am without direction, and even though they sound the same, they are not.
Jillian Cantor
#28. To be perfectly honest, I was never really aware that I had any special abilities. When you have what you have, you don't really think about what you don't have; you simply work with what you have.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#29. Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Mason Cooley
#30. Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going
Marianne Williamson
#31. The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities ... It is best to win without fighting.
Sun Tzu
#32. Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so.
Marc-Andre Hamelin
#33. If it makes you nervous- you're doing it right.
Donald Glover
