Van Cliburn Quotes

#1. If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is

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#2. If you always try to be cautious and careful, you will never impress anyone.

M.F. Moonzajer

#3. It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again.

Elton John

#4. There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.

Brian Eno

#5. I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

Britt Robertson

#6. I get offered a lot of the same type of thing ... The teenage slasher movies.

Casey Affleck

#7. The Catt sees not the mouse ever.

George Herbert

#8. I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

Sofia Vergara

#9. The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

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#10. The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

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#11. I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.

Robert Griffin III

#12. He kissed her forehead and drifted into an uneasy sleep, listening to the soft snoring of the creature on his chest, one he loved slightly more than he had come to fear.

Thomm Quackenbush

#13. Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

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#14. I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

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#15. Despite the huge crowd, He speaks to His disciples as though no one else is there.

Roma Downey

#16. But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

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#17. I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

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#18. I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

Misty Copeland

#19. Today's excuses are tomorrow's regrets dressed in disguise.

Steven Furtick

#20. Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

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#21. Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes ... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

John Constable

#22. A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Margaret Mead

#23. An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

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