Theremin's Quotes

#1. Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

Robert Moog

#2. Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#3. I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

Judy Collins

#4. When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels ... it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.

Jon Spencer

#5. To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come ...

William Shakespeare

#6. We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

Paulo Coelho

#7. There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein.

Leon Theremin

#8. Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.

Robert Downey Jr.

#9. I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.

Miguel Tejada

#10. I like pieces that are cool and simple. I try to wear really cute things, but they just don't suit me at all.

Nicole Trunfio

#11. I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

Leon Theremin

#12. Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

Frances Mayes

#13. Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.

Nick Offerman

#14. Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

G. Edward Griffin

#15. Walking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting strangers on the road. Many here understand what it feels like to walk a long way.

Evan Osnos

#16. Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.

Marjane Satrapi

#17. Two Arts degrees does not a life make.

Steven Herrick

#18. My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.

Klaus Schulze