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I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.


Bela Bartok

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STEVEN TYLER We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of in...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Music expresses - you express yourself with music.
RITA ORA I cannot conceive having a person running that office who has not been part of that system.
REP. MICHAEL FESTA One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
PAULO FREIRE I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his...
EDMUND BURKE I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
MAHATMA GANDHI Bartok is not an easy repertoire. But Bartok with the Tokyo String Quartet would be the best way tha...
MICHAEL BLACHLY You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Be...
LEONARD SLATKIN Photography imitates everything and expresses nothing.
HONORé DAUMIER I had spent much of my previous years completely enveloped in Coltrane and Bartok and really heavy, ...
THE BEATLES We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... T...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he w...
BLAISE PASCAL Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
W. E. B. DU BOIS I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure border...
NELSON MANDELA You cannot conceive the many without the one.
PLATO In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, ...
LEONARD SLATKIN There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar ...
PAULINA RUBIO Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow
(I CANNOT REMEMBER) I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. ...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) I find that the music expresses a lot of different things, not just anger. It's extreme. There's no ...
JADA PINKETT SMITH Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO Time flowed for Bela in the opposite direction. The day after yesterday, she sometimes said. Pronoun...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Absolutely believe in today, for today has all it takes to conceive &birth your dreams.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of with our season, absolutely nothing.
DAVID GALVIN cannot conceive that these guards, on their own initiatives, undertook these acts. I think there's m...
SUSAN COLLINS I remember nothing of my childhood. I remember absolutely nothing, it's kinda scary.
TONY TORREZ That had nothing to do with it, absolutely nothing. I was sorry he said that.
ROBERT NOVAK I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don&#...
BOBBIE ANN MASON We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the consci...
GRACE SPEARE Many people believe that composing 'Concerto for Orchestra' kept Bartok alive through his final year...
JOHN LARRY GRANGER Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, the...
YANIS VAROUFAKIS The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it
OSCAR WILDE I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or pra...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or woul...
ALBERT EINSTEIN He maintains that absolutely nothing happened and I certainly believe him.
VINCE O'HARA The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
OSCAR WILDE I have absolutely nothing to say.
DENISE GRIFFIN I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming...
UZO ADUBA One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one ...
RENE DESCARTES Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly...
DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI Having a good time is a part of Filipino culture. Music and dancing expresses an underground culture...
JOHANNA ALMIRON Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the...
WOODROW WILSON I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
VANESSA BROWN Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lu...
SARAH CHURCHWELL The bottom line was that absolutely nothing sold.
BARBARA HASKELL I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration ...
C.S. LEWIS In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our p...
RALPH RICHARDSON Every weekend I do what I love most, absolutely nothing!
ANONYMOUS I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could ...
MALCOLM X I think color is important. The subject matter expresses the message, the imagery ... expresses the ...
JANEEN KOCONIS And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.
JACQUELINE CAREY Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
PAUL TILLICH It was a heck of a win coming in here. I told them [before the game] that we've got nothing to lose ...
GREG WHITE Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the inte...
CHARLES MUNCH I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Rugged the breast that music cannot tame.
JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come...
GEORGE EASTMAN I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack ...
EDGARD VARESE I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.
DAVID BOREANAZ My message of love is absolutely simple; nothing can be more simple than that.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that rap music spurs violence.
JOHN NORTON I absolutely think the Seattle grunge sound was instrumental to my music education.
DAVID COOK Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can’t conceive of it being an isolated thing...
DAVID BYRNE By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
SAM HUNT I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them tha...
JOHN OWEN There is absolutely nothing in the file to indicate that.
DONALD MANASSE It is absolutely true that nothing much has been done.
KLAUS BAADER Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.
TELLER I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to brin...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhy...
ISADORA DUNCAN I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are ...
ABEL KORZENIOWSKI I am frightened of nothing."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing."
"Are you extremely frightened of n...
NEIL GAIMAN According to the results of our experience, unfortunately I cannot confirm that Skibbereen is the lu...
RICHARD WISEMAN I thought of how infinity is not a large number. It is something else entirely. It is boundlessness....
JOHN GREEN Traditional Christians cannot conceive of God as Mormons do: a God who has a wife, who invites other...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK I told people I was taking a gap year, but the truth was that I wanted to do nothing, absolutely not...
TANA FRENCH Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT That first goal that Reimer put in the first half was absolutely nothing,
BILL DUFFY The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a p...
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BELA FLECK The band deserves to be recorded. And we also recorded a live CD on the tour. Some day that will com...
BELA FLECK It's been an insane year.
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BELA LUGOSI You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
BELA LUGOSI It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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BELA FLECK Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.
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BELA LUGOSI The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
BELA LUGOSI It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.
BELA KUN As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.
BELA KUN I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.
BELA KUN I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
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BELA LUGOSI In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
BELA LUGOSI The stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSI If you are not serious, people will sense it.
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