Tredici Quotes

#1. Be slow to correct and quick to commend.

John Wooden

#2. When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

David Del Tredici

#3. I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

David Del Tredici

#4. When you go to sleep, where do you really go?

Brian Lovestar

#5. Laughing, the same way a wife might laugh at her husband who always brings home the strangest items from a local antiques market.

Cassandra Clare

#6. A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.

David Del Tredici

#7. I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it

Oprah Winfrey

#8. some of the boys she went with in Baltimore were "terrible speeds" and came to dances in states of artificial stimulation;

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Nikki Cox

#10. I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty.

Alan Wilson

#11. Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

David Del Tredici

#12. I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.

Marion Cotillard

#13. I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

David Del Tredici

#14. Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#15. Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#16. He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

David Del Tredici

#18. You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

Henri Michaux