"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."

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"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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Kelly Jones, Welsh Musician

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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."

Albert Brooks, American Actor

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"First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos."

Nina Blackwood, American Celebrity

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"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, German Musician

First, Orchestras, Routine

"Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period."

Geoff Downes, English Musician

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"The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form."

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, German Musician

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"Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays."

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

"Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."

"First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos."

"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."

"Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period."

"The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form."

"Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays."

"I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie."

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"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."

"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."

"So it takes years to make a solid company."

"All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps."

"God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?"