#cian

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#charisma #convinced #essential #every #everyone

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#artists #business #charity #hold #i

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#him #person #politician #politics #statesman

Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#attempt #dwell #fully #i #i do

The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records. ↗

— Vince Gill

#amazing #amazing thing #i #i think #maintained

And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#accept #auditioned #because #clue #deaf

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#answer #any #anything #ask #asked

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#instruments #learn #many #musicians #polls

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#could #drop #having #heard #infer