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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
Explore more quotes by Theodore Bikel
"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."
"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."
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