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“Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.”
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“Communication is the real work of leadership.”
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“Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.”
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“People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.”
Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
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“I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.”
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“It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Most people here don't have a wide emotional range. It's just the type of people astronauts are, they're required to be level.”
Source : "Julie Payette returns to space". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. February 4, 2009.