#popular

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#believed #composition #conductor #does #found

Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid. ↗

— Su-Mari Diedericks

#truth-of-life #unpopular #unwanted #life

In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#art-of-living #desire #famous-quotes #human #incarnation

Popular, You're gonna be Popular! I'll teach you the proper ploys when you talk to boys! Little ways to flirt and flounce! I'll show you what shoes to wear, how to fix your hair, everything that really counts, to be POPULAR!! ↗

— Stephen Schwartz

#popular #wicked #music

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#courage #disinterested #government #intelligence #know

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation. ↗

— Tony Snow

#broke #bush #even #four #george

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#been #cross #few #history #into

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#catfish #electric #i #i am #pool

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters. ↗

— Helen Slater

#acoustic #bit #could #courage #guess

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#generation #hammerstein #hits #movies #out