I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
Elliott Carter
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
George Crumb
People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.
Nigella Lawson
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Friedrich Schiller
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
Michael Ondaatje
Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.
Peter Abrahams
Elliott Carter
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
George Crumb
People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.
Nigella Lawson
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Friedrich Schiller
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
Michael Ondaatje
Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.
Peter Abrahams