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I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.

~Charles H. Townes

Topics: Because Doing Done Down Eager Few Get Lot More Produce Saw Science Short Very Wanted Wavelength Waves Would

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In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

~Charles H. Townes

Topics: After Because Cases Distractions Doing Down Fame Good Keeps Many Nobel Nobel Prize People Pity Prize Rewarding Who Win Work Yes You

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I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they want to, chase their toddlers, drink beer, take photos, get lost in the music and generally be themselves. And because a field has no rules, it's the perfect place to create unlikely combinations of musical genres.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Because Beer Best Chase Clap Combinations Context Create Drink Exciting Field Generally Genres Get Hear Lost Music Musical No Rules People Perfect Photos Place Played Really Rules Take Themselves Unlikely Want Where

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Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Among Because Best Compared Diversity Languages London New New York Our Pop Scene Spoken Streets Strength World York

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For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Alive Anyone Because Connection Find Genuinely Glad Go His Just Make Mozart Music People Quite Some Those Urge Who You

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I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.

~Charles Hazlewood

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Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play unimaginative backdrops to their acts. What's really exciting is when you spark off a dialogue between very different musical forces.

~Charles Hazlewood

Topics: Acts Artists Bad Because Between Dialogue Different Earned Exciting Forces Fusion Involve Mainly Musical Name Off Often Orchestra Play Pop Projects Really Spark Themselves Very You

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The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

~Charles Hodge

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When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

~Charles Horton Cooley

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One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

~Charles Ives

Topics: Am Anything Because Certain Done Father First Good Music One Thing Second Thing Wife I Am

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