Halls Quotes - Page 24

• When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Trust, Play, Work Out

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• Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

  Skitch Henderson

  Stars, Writing, Play

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• I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him down the hall in bed, propped on pillows, emailing me. "Hon,Enjoyed our gelato date the other night. I just want to say I'm proud of you for a lot of reasons. Also, I've attached a picture of my foot."He's such a weirdo goofball. I love him.

  Sara Zarr

  Love, Dad, Night

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• How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

  Jack Benny

  Practice, Carnegie, Carnegie Hall

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• But, I swear, they’re turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they’re also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

  Laura Prepon

  Ties, Rocks, Annie Hall

  "TV Q&A: “That ’70s Show”‘s Laura Prepon". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 13, 2007.

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• Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wall, Lying, Ocean

  'Lines written amongst the Euganean Hills' (1818) l. 90

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• He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ... Pi understood this need to hold on. To let let go of his pain. It had become such a part of him. Who would he be without it? The thought frightened him. So he wandered the halls of the catacombs like the other souls who were half-dead and half-alive.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Letting Go, Pain, Voice

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• They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?

  Upton Sinclair

  Humble, Men, Fire

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.260, First Avenue Editions

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• Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Soul, Shadow

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• ... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.

  Sara Gruen

  Children, Glasses, Hair

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• I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Memories, House

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.551, Scholastic Inc.

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• The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

  John Corigliano

  Thinking, Challenges, Technique

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• I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Crazy, Games

  "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Jerry Rice". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. August 04, 2010.

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• You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

  Jerry Rice

  Sports, Football, Team

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• I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.

  Jerry Rice

  Thinking, Fame, Fantastic

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• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  Barbara Cook

  New Year, Years, Symphony

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• But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

  Philip Larkin

  Photography, Art, Faithful

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Luxury, Honor, Honour

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

  Damian Lewis

  Creating, Tudors, Rereading

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• History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Spots, Occasional, Concerts

  1967 In the Observer,12 Feb.

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• The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it.

  Robert Benchley

  Eye, School, Men

  Life Magazine, April 14, 1921.

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• When you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team ... that's when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Team, Winning, Bed

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• The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Dream, Play, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall.

  Ashley Kahn

  Rocks, Long, Hip Hop

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• Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Ignorance, Men

  "No Name in the Street". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1972.

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