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It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.
I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.
In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.
The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
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Adam Weishaupt
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BirthDate
06 February, 1748
DeathDate
18 November, 1830
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Germany
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