"Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing."

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Source : "George Perle, a Composer and Theorist, Dies at 93" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2009.

George Perle

#Discovery Quotes #Done Quotes #Kind Quotes

“It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.”

Source : Interview with Dan Singer, brightestyoungthings.com. August 22, 2014.
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
“Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness.”
“I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.”
“Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.
“The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company
“Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.”
“Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream”

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