"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."

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"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."

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"If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?"

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

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"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."

Gunther Schuller, American Composer

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"When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub."

Gavin Rossdale, British Musician

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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."

Charles W. Colson, American Lawyer

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"So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."

Evan Parker, British Musician

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"And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first."

Steven Tyler, American Musician

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"First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on."

Garry Shandling, American Comedian

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"After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine."

Claire Forlani, English Actress

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"Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all."

James Brown, American Musician

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"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."

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"I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day."

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"I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone."

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"Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand."

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"The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes."

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"The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi."

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"The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."

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"To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole."

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"I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment."

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"The real art of conducting consists in transitions."

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