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In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.


Luciano Berio

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ROBERT LYNN ASPRIN Things will get worse before they get better.
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KATE CHRISTENSEN I am not saying the players will get any better - but they can't become any worse.
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MALCOLM S. FORBES Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.
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THICH NHAT HANH People think that they are untouchable, but you will probably find that there lives are built around...
GARY F EVANS... Opera once was an important social instrument -- especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people ...
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LUCIANO BERIO The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands...
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C.S. LEWIS Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elec...
JEANE KIRKPATRICK Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elect...
JEANE J. KIRKPATRICK If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and wor...
NAMIE AMURO We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.
ROBERT ANTHONY The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperforma...
PETER F. DRUCKER Things will get worse before they get better. A little more agony before the fever will break.
LAUREN DESTEFANO Some things get better and worse at the same time
STEVEN MONACO Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentat...
MATISYAHU We're not saying they're worse or that they're terrible vehicles. We're challenging the conventional...
DR. DENNIS DURBIN We're not saying they're worse or that they're terrible vehicles. We're challenging the conventional...
DENNIS DURBIN Human beings can transform themselves. They can grow larger or smaller but they grow every day.
WALTER ANDERSON Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they...
JEANE KIRKPATRICK Things'll get worse before they get better.
KAREN M. MCMANUS In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse...
ABEL AGANBEGYAN We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
MAY L. BECKER We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
BERNARD M. BARUCH For better or worse, I don't necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I'm not going ...
REBECCA HALL Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relati...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to mysel...
BOBBY FLAY Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
LILY TOMLIN You can give them the ability to get more junk in there, for better or worse; they like it.
ADAM COLE The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you k...
JOHN GREEN People always say that when something like this happens, you either get better or you get worse. I r...
JOHN PORTER The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Science is shaped by ignorance. Great questions themselves evolve, of course, because their answers ...
DAVID GROSS And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in...
JOSEPH HALL If people want to find things, they find them themselves.
JIMMY PAGE I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
MARK TWAIN I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I us...
PHILIP PULLMAN People get into routines of being unkind to themselves or saying they are stupid or an idiot, that t...
KAREN STEINBERG I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.
ROBERT STACK As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better."
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LAINI TAYLOR He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other p...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY These [jobless] numbers confirm everything that came out in the Fed statement. Things are going to g...
ANTHONY CHAN When things get better, there's a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.
RUPI KAUR When you lose, you have to flick the switch -- either you're gonna get better or worse. And he wasn'...
GARY WORTHINGTON The gasoline barrels from Europe might take two weeks to get here. Things will get worse before they...
AARON KILDOW They value what has come to them from prior generations. They value the handiwork, making things the...
JULIA OLIN For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.
AMOR TOWLES In five years, either it'll get a whole lot worse, or it'll get a whole lot better.
DAVID GINSBURG Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evol...
BILLY SHEEHAN It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were alwa...
MARGARET ATWOOD The Christian music genre has gotten big enough that bands don't have to worry about compromising th...
BILLY GOODWIN Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibi...
JERRY SALTZ We were behind, and that forces things to happen. It either makes things better or makes it a little...
ED BEATTIE Dont let the love control your heart without letting your brain get in the middle or you will lose m...
SAD LOVE ANGEL I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?
DAVID N. DINKINS I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong wi...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I often try to reassure myself by saying, "Well, at least it can´t get any worse." But the truth is...
JIMMY FALLON I often try to reassure myself by saying, "Well, at least it can´t get any worse." But the truth is...
JIMMY FALLON I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't tr...
BEATRICE DALLE For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
JODI PICOULT The players and pitchers keep themselves in better shape year-round. They never let themselves get o...
GENE LAMONT Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Winners dont do different things,they do things differently
SHIV KHERA I just hope they have a conscience and turn themselves in before it gets any worse.
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ELIZABETH HARRISON In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves a...
NICHOLAS CHAMFORT I keep getting described as a tall black drag queen, but I dont think of myself as a drag queen,
CHRISTOPHER RAND When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself int...
RICHARD MARX You dont have to live forever just live.
NATALIE BABBITT I love to stare at people. I like staring at beautiful things. I guess it's better this way. Cause w...
DEVLIN PAJARON Winners dont do different things
They do things differently
SHIV KERA People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselve...
JOHANN VON GOETHE People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselve...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE if ever you fail in a job or attempt then dont get dejected, because god knew that you were made to ...
RAHUL.V.BHOLE We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for t...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR When you can inspire others to dream, learn, evolve, and become one that they can appreciate and res...
VISHWAS CHAVAN I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their...
AL WALSER I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The...
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BOB WEIR If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe...
QUENTIN CRISP My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, ...
STEPHAN JENKINS I'm going to relax for a while. My joke is that I'm going to help my wife enhance her career. I have...
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