Anthony Davis famous quotes

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.
-- Anthony Davis

#Want #Fit

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
-- Anthony Davis

#Writing #Voice #Opera

Only one music comes out of me.
-- Anthony Davis

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.
-- Anthony Davis

#Artist #Perception #Mystery

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.
-- Anthony Davis

#Meaningful #Important #Elements

Hearing is believing...a magician with the piano.
-- Anthony Davis

#Believe #Piano #Hearing

I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.
-- Anthony Davis

#Musician #Doctrine #Orthodoxy

I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.