For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.

I begin by considering an effect.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.