American Quotes

It was only later on that I became more interested in older music.

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.

I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.

With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.

We don't have the family organization the way we used to. My father lives with us because we have the room. The greatest of all opportunities for our children is a complete family unit.

The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.

I have never met a happy atheist. I believe in separation of church and state, but I think we have gone so far over in the other direction of separating church and state.

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.