#ted

I think a composer is always interested in his last work. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#composer #his #i #i think #interested

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#already #beginning #come #culture #force

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#deserted #forced #i #january #labor

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#class #class clown #clown #competitive #gravitated

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#bus #bus driver #driver #driving #eyes

I started as a print reporter. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#print #reporter #started

On my income tax 1040 it says "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#away #blind #box #check #i

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#bush #figure #george #george bush #george w

I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better musicians, they were better athletes, they were not uptight about sex, and they knew how to enjoy life better than most people. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#as far as #athletes #better #black #concerned

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#attracted #bass #became #being #bought