Alexander Borodin famous quotes
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Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.
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Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.
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As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.
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I am a composer in search of oblivion; and I'm always slightly ashamed to admit that I compose.
-- Alexander Borodin
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When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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Little by little does the trick.
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You need not wrestle for your good. Your good flows to you most easily when you are relaxed, open, and trusting.
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You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.
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Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.
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When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
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Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.
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You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.
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