Wendy Carlos Quotes

#1. A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Wendy Carlos

#2. He plunges into the middle of them and it is a frightening thing. He must be fierce and wicked and brave all at the same time. I'm glad he's on our side.

Nancy E. Turner

#3. But time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty. Now Bonasera felt the sickness of a man faced with disaster.

Mario Puzo

#4. Doing things God's way is always a matter of the heart.

Elizabeth George

#5. It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

Wendy Carlos

#6. I suppose I was affected by raw sounds and timbres more than a lot of other composers. Had I been involved with orchestral composing, I think the aspect that would have most endeared me to that field would have been the orchestration.

Wendy Carlos

#7. Take what you need from [films] and get out of the dark once in a while. You're going to have more of the dark than you can handle, sooner than you think. The thing about the dark is it can never get enough of you.

Patton Oswalt

#8. Your mind, never active at anytime, is now even less than ever so.

Samuel Beckett

#9. The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

Baruch Spinoza

#10. Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he's ashamed of his own, and who likes an open, honest tale from someone he's deceiving?

Richard Adams

#11. As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Wendy Carlos

#12. You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

Wendy Carlos

#13. Composition has almost always been solitary.

Wendy Carlos

#14. I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

Wendy Carlos

#15. I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.

Rose McGowan

#16. What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

Wendy Carlos

#17. The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

Donella Meadows

#18. Never wade through the pretty ripples
of perpetually flowing
rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters,
and prayed to them,
and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water.

Hesiod

#19. There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.

Barack Obama

#20. I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

Emmeline Pankhurst