Roger Sessions Quotes

#1. It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

Roger Andrew Taylor

#2. I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#3. I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

Roger Sessions

#4. I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle.

Josh McDermitt

#5. Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter's day.

St John Morris

#6. Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

Roger Sessions

#8. My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

Sloane Crosley

#9. We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

Charlie Pierce

#10. I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

Antoine Fuqua

#11. Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them.

Chloe Thurlow

#12. But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it ... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

Roger Sessions

#13. The price of labor, like the price of everything else, is governed by the relation of supply to demand.

Frederic Bastiat

#14. No law is quite appropriate for all.

Livy

#15. I am not a fan of politics.

Chris Kyle

#16. Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

Priscilla Ahn

#17. In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. That's where you're wrong," said Kaz. "I don't hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins." "I'm

Leigh Bardugo

#19. Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

Roger Sessions

#20. It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

Vidal Sassoon