E. S. Carter Quotes

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it.

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

Lovers re-create the world.

Robert Hoffman is kind of infamous for beinga prankster, funny guy.

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.

sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.

Integrity means doing the right thing, especially when no one is watching.

There is no part of like that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Sometimes we don't understand or we forget that there are no mistakes, only lessons.

Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

He is a leader among leaders.

Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

If heartaches and tears and shadows of doubt are part of the deal you can count me out but if your talking about a game I can win You can count me in

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

I also love real estate and decorating.

How do I tell you what my heart's been telling me?

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

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

I never listened to country music growing up.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.

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

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.

Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

Theres a place in my heart for every team I played on.

To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.

The only thing on my mind now is getting that World Series ring.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.