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Jennifer Higdon

"I know that my music is heard a lot in commercial circles. In academia, I think my music is taken in differently but I'm not sure why that is. Some kind of sixth sense tells me that people in that world are thinking differently about it. I don't know if it has to do with the structure of my music, which is probably more apparent to those in the academic world than it is in the commercial world, where people tend not to think of that aspect of music so much. They just listen for pure enjoyment."

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Jennifer Higdon

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“My PSA was normal but the DRE indicated there may be a problem.”
“Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.”

Source : Charles Capps (1981). “Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen”, Harrison House Incorporated
“The end goal of meditation is to do whatever helps slow your mind down, in order to achieve a peaceful, positive state of mind and body.”
“Be confident and not cocky.”
“I do think that there`s very little coverage of a lot of the people on Hillary Clinton`s side that aren`t - well, let`s just start with Hillary Clinton, herself who lies for a living.”
“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.”

Source : "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.
“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.”
“Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,”

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