Nino Rota quotes

Nino Rota quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When Iâ€™m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.”
-- Nino Rota

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“When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.”
-- Nino Rota

#Happiness Quotes #Music Quotes #Being Happy Quotes

“The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.”
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”
“I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.”

Source : "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.
“What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!”
“The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.”
“The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.”

Source : "Alice Coltrane, Wife of John, Left Her Own Mark". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 16, 2007.
“She'd barely covered up her long, tan legs in a pair of shorts that made me want to go to church on Sunday just to thank God for creating her. - Beau”
“Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.”
“The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.”
“I think people should be proud of the work they do, whatever it is. I have this other arty side that loves creating homes. I can be happy going to the hardware store.”

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