Ruggiero Ricci Quotes

#1. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

John Milton

#2. It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.

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#3. A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

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#4. A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

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#5. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

#6. Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

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#7. Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

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#8. I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.

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#9. Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

Matt Taibbi

#10. Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

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#11. The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. Every violinist has a different style, so it's important to be able to recognise their styles. You don't have to like everyone's style but you have to know these styles.

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#13. It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#14. The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. Of course I want to, but I would look like a bad person if I didn't object at all.

Tarryn Fisher

#16. So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

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#17. Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

Woody Allen

#18. But unlike the person with exquisite taste in painting or perfume, the movie nerd is classless as well. Grasping the genius of Russ Meyer or George Romero or Herschell Gordon Lewis carries no cultural cachet and gets no one laid, believe me.

David Gordon

#19. You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

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#20. This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ...

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#21. The best way to be GLOBAL is to be LOCAL

Alex Atala

#22. When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.

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