Beethoven: The Universal Composer.
Edmund Morris
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CECILIA BARTOLI I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death.
CASSANDRA CLARE The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
GORDON LIGHTFOOT This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mah...
KLAUS HEYMANN It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
GEORGE MALLORY He stands up, slowly, and puts his hands on the zipper of his jeans, where I notice there's a bulge ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
EDMUND MORRIS drunks like James Cagney and Spencer Tracy.
EDMUND MORRIS [One night in the mid-'80s, Morris and his wife, Sylvia, had dinner with Reagan at the White House. ...
EDMUND MORRIS The fact that the Reagans were not particularly hospitable to the Bushes during the eight years of t...
EDMUND MORRIS [Reagan's eldest child Maureen recently said she has concluded Morris] wasted an incredible and irre...
EDMUND MORRIS there are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.
EDMUND MORRIS We start at 25, as he begins to transform himself through sheer force of will from this asthmatic, n...
EDMUND MORRIS He would nurse a beer through an evening of Irish revelry, affable and jovial, and carry his paralyt...
EDMUND MORRIS Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat o...
EDMUND MORRIS Ensconced, he (Roosevelt) lacked some of the neuroses of progressives-economic envy and race hatred ...
EDMUND MORRIS Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the p...
EDMUND MORRIS Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or...
EDMUND MORRIS Norway...looked to Roosevelt "as funny a kingdom as was ever imagined outside of opera bouffe....It ...
EDMUND MORRIS If he was less motivated by compassion than anger at what he saw as the arrogance of capital,he chaf...
EDMUND MORRIS As Edmund Hilary might say, we've knocked the bastard off.
PHILIP MACALISTER I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music; of the cri...
SERGEI PROKOFIEV I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked...
KIRSTIE ALLEY A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.
ERNEST NEWMAN I love Beethoven, especially the poems.
RINGO STARR I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
RINGO STARR vocalist, composer
MAI HUY I'm a huge fan of Morris Chestnut. I grew up with Morris, and I know him personally.
TIA MOWRY This is the Beethoven of that time.
BILLY COX Even Beethoven didn't get that.
ANTHONY BURGER Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Bee...
JOSHUA BELL Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.
CHUCK BERRY I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
RICHARD STRAUSS Emory Morris, where are you at?
JULIE MORRIS Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.
BRUNO WALTER At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating abo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And the goblins--they had not really been there at all? They were only the phantoms of cowardice and...
E.M. FORSTER The music of Beethoven's Fidelio always rises up in my mind when I think of that meeting in the fore...
WILLIAM MAXWELL Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.
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UNIVERSAL GADGETS Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and ...
C.S. LEWIS Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer....
ORNETTE COLEMAN Morris did a great job coming back on us.
DAVID LONG I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as...
JACQUES IBERT Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Philip Morris never used cartoons in its advertising,
BIBLE The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI We're not the type of orchestra that would issue a straight Beethoven CD. We're known for our unique...
ADAM CRANE Right now, the only person we're looking for is Mr. Morris,
TODD ANDERSON I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
PAUL OAKENFOLD Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN Underneath, (Beethoven) wasn't a bad guy at all.
JOE LAPCHICK Dvorak is a composer I adore,
ANDREW DAVIS I am but an architectural composer.
ALEXANDER JACKSON DAVIS I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.
DAVID CANARY I'm not an architectural composer.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE You become what the composer asks you to become.
JOSHUA BELL [The tragedy and its remembrance, fueled by the ballad] The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald ... We ar...
GORDON LIGHTFOOT Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind ...
BEETHOVEN To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though ...
BEETHOVEN Duane Morris is an excellent insurance company law firm.
DAVID GOODWIN Life is Like a Piano,, and Im Playing Beethoven...
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) why didn't they choose a Danish composer?
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Philip Morris USA believes the U.S. Supreme Court appropriately denied the government's petition.
WILLIAM OHLEMEYER I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS Morris Kite was the chairman. I remember the first meeting of that committee, out in an abandoned Vi...
JOSEPH HANSEN I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.
DAVID CANARY A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKY A good composer does not imitate; he steals
IGOR STRAVINSKY Of course, we didn't look smart in 1999 owning Philip Morris.
MICHAEL SANDLER I'm sure the Duquesne kids are aware of Robert Morris and I'm sure the Robert Morris kids are aware ...
JOE WALTON One couple drove all the way from Morris on Christmas to bring us gifts.
JOYCE MAJEWSKI You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edm...
C.S. LEWIS Morris and Cooper both hit the ball hard and drove in runs. Cooper has been swinging a hot bat and h...
DAVID CAMIC In Vienna every place Beethoven looked at, it's marked by something.
WYNTON MARSALIS It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
NEVILLE MARRINER Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.
MITCH LEIGH I don't really call myself a composer.
CAROLINE SHAW Honestly, I think Chris Morris has stepped up and taken control of this offense. I'm kind of the per...
DREW STANTON In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven ...
KURT MASUR My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
ZENDAYA We became Morris and Morecambe. This partnership did not last long, however.
ERNIE WISE Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!
HERB KELLEHER Half the people in Morris County don't even know what's going to happen to them.
BARBARA FRAWLEY The event will have a violinist performing as well as Eric Morris, a gospel singer.
PAT ALLEN (Morris) is definitely our go-to guy. We definitely want the ball in his hands.
FRAN KUNTZ I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schube...
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
EVA MARIE SAINT The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman
gives geometry its freedom.
ARTHUR CAYLEY Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was m...
LEWIS GORDON PUGH I've always been a composer dependent on texts.
DAVID DEL TREDICI There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano!...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD Philip Morris still generates enormous amounts of cash, ... We're not giving up yet.
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EDMUND MORRIS The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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EDMUND HILLARY A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the pe...
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EDMUND BURKE But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
EDMUND SPENSER I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
EDMUND WILSON The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagi...
EDMUND WILSON The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
EDMUND WILSON All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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EDMUND WILSON Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
EDMUND WILSON Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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EDMUND WHITE If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to...
EDMUND WHITE Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o...
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EDMUND WHITE Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it...
EDMUND WHITE I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it sho...
EDMUND WHITE In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
EDMUND WHITE New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has e...
EDMUND WHITE Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goof...
EDMUND WHITE In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a ...
EDMUND WHITE There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That'...
EDMUND WHITE The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of...
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EDMUND WHITE I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
EDMUND WHITE Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
EDMUND WALLER His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
EDMUND WALLER So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
EDMUND WALLER A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but wh...
EDMUND WALLER Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
EDMUND WALLER Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
EDMUND WALLER Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
EDMUND WALLER Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
EDMUND WALLER How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
EDMUND WALLER Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to the...
EDMUND WALLER And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still m...
EDMUND WALLER Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
EDMUND WALLER Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
EDMUND WALLER Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
EDMUND WALLER All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
EDMUND WALLER The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
EDMUND WALLER To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
EDMUND WALLER Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
EDMUND WALLER The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the so...
EDMUND WALLER He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received ...
EDMUND SPENSER Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
EDMUND SPENSER What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSER Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
EDMUND SPENSER And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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EDMUND SPENSER And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing...
EDMUND PHELPS Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging outpu...
EDMUND PHELPS Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid...
EDMUND PHELPS The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and ...
EDMUND PHELPS In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism...
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EDMUND PHELPS The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work,...
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EDMUND PHELPS What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but ...
EDMUND PHELPS Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the cl...
EDMUND PHELPS In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a compara...
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EDMUND PHELPS I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
EDMUND PHELPS I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are ...
EDMUND PHELPS At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are...
EDMUND PHELPS An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare stat...
EDMUND PHELPS Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies ...
EDMUND PHELPS Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that ...
EDMUND PHELPS When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and fina...
EDMUND PHELPS My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t...
EDMUND PHELPS Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their con...
EDMUND PHELPS Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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EDMUND MORGAN The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particu...
EDMUND MORGAN Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They ...
EDMUND MORGAN Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchan...
EDMUND MORGAN The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer ...
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EDMUND MORGAN Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson s...
EDMUND MORGAN Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who...
EDMUND MORGAN In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer...
EDMUND MORGAN No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
EDMUND MORGAN Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, ...
EDMUND MORGAN The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that the...
EDMUND MORGAN The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist t...
EDMUND MORGAN The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did no...
EDMUND MORGAN To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one fro...
EDMUND MORGAN Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not bea...
EDMUND LEACH The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between ...
EDMUND LEACH Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets...
EDMUND LEACH Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make u...
EDMUND HUSSERL Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research...
EDMUND HUSSERL Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objec...
EDMUND HUSSERL What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essent...
EDMUND HUSSERL If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reali...
EDMUND HUSSERL To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the ...
EDMUND HUSSERL Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of st...
EDMUND HUSSERL In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherei...
EDMUND HUSSERL We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
EDMUND HUSSERL Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
EDMUND HUSSERL To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
EDMUND HUSSERL It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness throug...
EDMUND HUSSERL Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which...
EDMUND HUSSERL At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, proc...
EDMUND HUSSERL Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Obje...
EDMUND HUSSERL Experience by itself is not science.
EDMUND HUSSERL I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
EDMUND HILLARY While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worke...
EDMUND HILLARY Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
EDMUND HILLARY I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there'...
EDMUND HILLARY I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
EDMUND HILLARY I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevas...
EDMUND HILLARY The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
EDMUND HILLARY My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be ta...
EDMUND HILLARY No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
EDMUND HILLARY Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
EDMUND HILLARY Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
EDMUND HILLARY I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
EDMUND HILLARY It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
EDMUND HILLARY There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all fea...
EDMUND HILLARY If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this moun...
EDMUND HILLARY I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
EDMUND BARTON The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference ...
EDMUND BARTON Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
EDMUND BARTON If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of ed...
EDMUND BARTON It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
EDMUND BARTON She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
EDMUND BURKE The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassin...
EDMUND MORGAN The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
EDMUND BURKE The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses...
EDMUND WALLER The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an
whole people.
EDMUND BURKE There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
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EDMUND BURKE Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their c...
EDMUND PHELPS I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point...
EDMUND WHITE If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting...
EDMUND MORRISON It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER Who will not mercie unto others show,
How can he mercie ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSER Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
EDMUND SPENSER It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
EDMUND SPENSER Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
EDMUND SPENSER Anger manages everything badly.
EDMUND SPENSER There is no disputing about taste.
[Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]
EDMUND SPENSER Although the last, not least.
EDMUND SPENSER In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city withou...
EDMUND WHITE It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE