quite Quotes

“I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.”

“All art is quite useless.”

“Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.”

“Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.”

“As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.”

“It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.”

“I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.”

“But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.”

“As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.”

“I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.”