Judith Weir famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you
-- Judith Weir

#Horse #Nice #Mean
I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow...
-- Judith Weir

#Thinking #Discipline #Trying
The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.
-- Judith Weir

#Good Enough #Danger #Accepting
I often wonder, if there were no deadlines, would anything ever get ended?
-- Judith Weir

#Finishing #Wonder #Deadline
Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.
-- Judith Weir

#Writing #Thinking #Ideas
I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.
-- Judith Weir

#Thinking #Years #Long
The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.
-- Judith Weir

#Art #People #Effort

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.
I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm like NO ONE and I'm just starting out and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.
I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

Judith Weir famous quotes

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