"Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing."

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, German Musician

America, Attention, Imitation, Suspicion

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"Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see."

Ajay Naidu, American Actor

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"It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before."

Eric Clapton, British Musician

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"Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar."

Billy Crystal, American Comedian

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"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."

Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman

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"Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten."

Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman

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"Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking."

Nina Simone, American Musician

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"As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America."

Laurie Anderson, American Musician

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"With creative people, truly new horizons open up."

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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."

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"Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work."

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"If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief."

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"All music has to speak in some form or other."

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"In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role."

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