"There was the noise itself, which he thought……" — Alan Hollinghurst
"There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had"
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Alan Hollinghurst
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9 Quotes by Alan Hollinghurst
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To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' ---…
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
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The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own…
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What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
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...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
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The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.
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she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her…
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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
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More Classical Quotes
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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
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Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.
— Bjork
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I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to…
— Tony Blair
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people…
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
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Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances,…
— Dave Brubeck
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes…
— Dave Brubeck
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I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real…
— Nicolas Cage
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I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for…
— Paulo Coelho
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