Stjepan Hauser Quotes

#1. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.

Danzy Senna

#3. Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

Remy De Gourmont

#4. There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never happened. There're no scientists picketing outside of churches.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. It started when I was eight years old. I first heard the cello on the radio, and I loved the sound. It was such a magical, beautiful sound. I dedicated my entire childhood to cello, practising like crazy.

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#6. We have a rock audience, classical audience, metal, pop - everything. We unite them all.

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#7. When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

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#8. Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

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#9. Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

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#10. I lost all I had known and gained a life I was yet to know.

Nikki Rowe

#11. Most of our fan experiences include many touching moments. There are even fans who have told us that our music saved their lives and that is very powerful to hear and to realize, that our music can make such a profound difference.

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#12. Every soul needs a touch of erotic love. A deep, unconditional love is what every heart truly desires. True love is passionately erotic.

Salil Jha

#13. We are so excited to be touring and showing audiences the versatility of the cello.

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#14. I try to be as clear and simple as I can be in my illustrations so that the child can tell what is going on and what the emotions are.

Tomie DePaola

#15. To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#16. Love being such, or such,
the normal corners of your heart
will never guess how much
my wonderful jealousy is dark

E. E. Cummings

#17. For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a strip of floor which they pace up and down.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#18. All that two lovers want, is to be one with the other in a moment of ecstasy.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger people, and to show them how cool and how powerful and how diverse the cello can be.

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#20. It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello ... there are endless possibilities.

Stjepan Hauser

#21. The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

Stjepan Hauser

#22. Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

Tabatha Coffey

#23. We try to connect with the audience as much as we can. We feel the energy from the audience, and it gives us so much joy and inspiration.

Stjepan Hauser

#24. I love listening to pop songs in Spanish and Italian.

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#25. In the age of media, we are nothing but minds waiting to be filled, emotions waiting to be manipulated.

D.T. Max

#26. I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

Stjepan Hauser

#27. Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

Mohsin Hamid

#28. President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should help the poor. He wants to keep the impoverished directly dependent on the government - and the Democratic Party - for their daily bread.

Dick Morris