Quotes
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.
If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.
I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.
Robert W. Wilson
I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked.
Robert W. Wilson
For the first, I designed a device we called the Sun Tracker. It automatically pointed to the sun while it was up every day and measured the attenuation of the sun's cm-wave radiation in the earth's atmosphere.
Robert W. Wilson
Both of my parents are inveterate do-it-yourselfers, almost no task being beneath their dignity or beyond their ingenuity.
What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.
It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.
When you reach the point when the Dilbert cartoons seem exactly to capture your daily experience in corporate life, it is time to move.
You have to learn the basics of your instrument. It is like sports: if you don't have the fundamentals, you don't get very far. Natural talent will only carry you so far.
The audiences all over Europe are great. They really appreciate the music. Italy - there is such a warm spirit there. It maybe have something to do with it being on the Mediterranean. I am a little mystic about it. It is the way that people live. People don't live in a lifestyle based on competition so the stress level is not as prominent.
Edward and I both agreed with the view of a Greek friend of ours, Jean Varda, who was fond of saying there were three perfect shapes in the world ... the hull of a boat, a violin and a woman's body.
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
It is for the teenagers who can be hours away from slitting their wrists that I am out.