#arte

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

#christmas #expecting #fell #first #friend

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano. ↗

— Carla Bley

#father #free #got #i #instead

I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle. ↗

— Carla Bley

#best #circle #come #full #i

The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. ↗

— Hans Blix

#away #biological #ceasefire #chemical #conditions

I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#great #i #just #need #opportunity

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#breath #choose #high #high note #i

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#course #culture #fitting #i #into

You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#bill #bridges #buildings #built #buy

I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#broadcasting #espn #i #missing #race

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#bad #controversy #criticized #deserved #felt