"Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules."

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Aaron Zigman

#Break Quotes #Century Quotes #Rachmaninoff Quotes

“Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.”

Source : Jason Kilar's Commencement Address at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, www.c-span.org. May 10, 2015.
“If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!”
“Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.”
“I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years”
“I wear sports clothes because I feel comfortable in them.”
“Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.”
“I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.”
“Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.”

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