Quotes About Messiaen

#1. I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

Matt Groening

#2. Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung's work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again ... in Messiaen, a feeling for the music's reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.

Donal Henahan

#3. It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

Charles Hazlewood

#4. Police work can grind a man down, mentally, more than physically. I sensed that it is because of the hours of tedium and boredom, interrupted by moments of sheer terror.

James J. Kavanaugh

#5. Fact: The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.

Demetri Martin

#6. A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.

Olivier Messiaen

#7. It's probable that in the artistic hierarchy birds are the greatest musicians existing on our planet.

Olivier Messiaen

#8. He couldn't help himself. He loved us, Francie, more than anything,

Judy Blume

#9. The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

Olivier Messiaen

#10. When in still air and still in summertime
A leaf has had enough of this, it seems
To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage
Its drifting in detachment down the road.

Howard Nemerov

#11. And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready. For

Mary Roach

#12. I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged.

Buzz Aldrin

#13. No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

Olivier Messiaen

#14. Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Jimmy Buffett

#15. Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create.

Bryant McGill

#16. Joseph Conrad once wrote that 'it is the peculiarity of Russian natures that however sharply engaged in the drama of action, they are still turning their ear to the murmur of abstract ideas'.106

S.A. Smith

#17. Birds are the first and the greatest performers.

Olivier Messiaen

#18. My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

Olivier Messiaen

#19. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Olivier Messiaen

#20. He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
[He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]

George Herbert

#21. The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

Jason Chaffetz

#22. I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.

Charles Yu

#23. Sometimes I look at you, and I think - if I didn't know we shared a destiny, if I hadn't seen the proof for myself, I'd never believe this was real. That you could love me as much as I love you.

Claudia Gray

#24. I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

Henry Miller

#25. The biggest weakness with my game is that I have fun with the galleries. I just love a gallery.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias