Samuel Barber quotes

“I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.”
-- Samuel Barber

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.”
-- Samuel Barber

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“How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,”
-- Samuel Barber

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“He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.”
-- Samuel Barber

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“I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.”
-- Samuel Barber

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“There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.”

“Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.”

“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”

“At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.”

“Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

“I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.”

“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”

“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U

“Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.”

Source : "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.