You’re working a million hours and you’re on the road recruiting and you’re doing all these things, but at the end of the day, you’re competing for a championship. You’re competing for a Big Ten Championship, you’re in the Rose Bowl, you’re taking your family to the Cotton Bowl. Ryan Day Read Quote
It took me three weeks to write the ‘Rhapsody in Blue.’ I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired. George Gershwin Read Quote
One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God… I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with… Well, again, when you’re young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying. John Carpenter Read Quote
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that. Anand Giridharadas Read Quote
I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don’t allow us our voice, that’s all I’m saying. Eddie Vedder Read Quote
I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him. Jill McCorkle Read Quote
I don’t like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it’s what I wanted, and that’s it. Brian Ferneyhough Read Quote
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. Georg C. Lichtenberg Read Quote
My stepdad didn’t have a father growing up, so he didn’t know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship in which he never really offered me advice. Lecrae Read Quote
