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# Grace Kwiyucwiny

Grace Freedom Kwiyucwiny is a Ugandan politician who serves as the State Minister for Northern Uganda in the Ugandan Cabinet. She was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016. She also served as the woman Member of Parliament representing the Zombo District.

## Quote

* The completion of storyed padihdia modern market need sh3.5billion to accommodate all the vendors
* The fund rolled out by the government is intended to alleviate poverty at the parish level across the country and tasked benefiting groups to spend it only on the enterprises they selected.
* For the fund to be successful in alleviating poverty, the respective individuals benefiting from PDM must first change their mindset from thinking the money is a gift from the government.
* Interventions for nodding disease syndrome need to be budgeted for and streamlined in the plans for the local governments
# Chris Evans (actor)

Christopher Robert Evans (born June 13, 1981) is an American actor. Evans is known for his superhero roles as the Marvel Comics characters Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

## Quotes

* I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.
* The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.
* Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
* I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good.
* For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.
* There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.
* I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine's Day more than diamonds!
* The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.
# Elden Francis Curtiss

Elden Francis Curtiss (June 16, 1932 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Helena and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Omaha.

## Quotes

* I'm so blessed by the Lord, the way He has revealed Himself to me through His Eucharist, and by the priests who have supported me all these years, and the people.
** Celebrating 65 years as a priest, Archbishop Curtiss raises a song to God (24 May 2023) The Catholic Voice
# Carlo Maria Martini

Carlo Maria Martini (15 February 1927 – 31 August 2012) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* Greater familiarity of European men and women with the Sacred Scriptures leads towards that experience of burning fire in the heart which was experienced by the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. The Bible read and prayed, in particular by young people, is the book of the future for the European continent.
** H. Em. Card. Carlo Maria MARTINI, Archbishop of Milan (7 October 1999) Press Office of the Holy See
# The Wanderer (poem)

The Wanderer is an anonymous elegiac Old English poem that could date to the early 7th century, preserved in the Exeter Book (c. 960 to 990). The narrator of the poem laments his fate as an unprotected man who, having lost both his lord and his family, faces a hostile world alone.

## Quotes

    The translations used here include those by Michael Alexander in The Earliest English Poems (1975).
* Oft him anhaga are gebideð, metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig geond lagulade longe sceolde hreran mid hondum hrimcealde sæ, wadan wræclastas. Wyrd bið ful aræd!
** Who liveth alone longeth for mercy, Maker's mercy. Though he must traverse Tracts of sea, sick at heart, – Trouble with oars ice-cold waters, The ways of exile – Weird is set fast.
** Line 1
* Ne mæg werig mod wyrde wiðstondan, ne se hreo hyge helpe gefremman. Forðon domgeorne dreorigne oft in hyra breostcofan bindað fæste.
** No weary mind may stand against Weird Nor may a wrecked will work new hope; Wherefore, most often, those eager for fame Bind the dark mood fast in their breasts.
** Line 15
* Wat se þe cunnað, hu sliþen bið sorg to geferan, þam þe him lyt hafað leofra geholena.
** He knows who makes trial How harsh and bitter is care for companion To him who hath few friends to shield him.
** Line 29
* Ongietan sceal gleaw hæle hu gæstlic bið, þonne ealre þisse worulde wela weste stondeð.
** A wise man may grasp how ghastly it shall be When all this world's wealth standeth waste.
** Line 73
* Hwær cwom mearg? Hwær cwom mago? Hwær cwom maþþumgyfa? Hwær cwom symbla gesetu? Hwær sindon seledreamas? Eala beorht bune! Eala byrnwiga! Eala þeodnes þrym! Hu seo þrag gewat, genap under nihthelm, swa heo no wære.
** Where is that horse now? Where are those men? Where is the hoard-sharer? Where is the house of the feast? Where is the hall's uproar? Alas, bright cup! Alas, burnished fighter! Alas, proud prince! How that time has passed, Dark under night’s helm, as though it never had been!
** Line 92
** Variant translation:
          Where is the horse gone? Where the rider? Where the giver of treasure? Where are the seats at the feast? Where are the revels in the hall? Alas for the bright cup! Alas for the mailed warrior! Alas for the splendour of the prince! How that time has passed away, dark under the cover of night, as if it had never been!
* Her bið feoh læne, her bið freond læne, her bið mon læne, her bið mæg læne, eal þis eorþan gesteal idel weorþeð!
** Wealth is lent us, friends are lent us, Man is lent, kin is lent; All this earth's frame shall stand empty.
** Line 108
# Joe Pass

Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalacqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. Although Pass collaborated with pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, his status as one of the most notable jazz guitarists of the 20th century is generally attributed to his work on his solo albums, such as Virtuoso.

## Quotes

* Staying high was my first priority; playing was second; girls were third. But the first thing really took all my energy.
** As quoted from a 1976 interview with Rolling Stone by David Slavković of Ultimate-Guitar (May 28, 2018)
* There are a lot of ways to do a solo album. One way is to take a tune and work it out, decide on changes, intro, and ending, modulations, tempos – work it out, and go in and do it. What I did, though, was just go in, and somebody would say 'Why don't you play How High The Moon?' I'd say 'Yeah, that might be nice.' I had no tempo in mind, no key, necessarily. I just tried to make it from beginning to end. I found myself getting into traps and having to get out of them.
** As quoted from an interview with Downbeat by David Slavković of Ultimate-Guitar (May 28, 2018)

## Quotes about Joe Pass

* Joe Pass did the near-impossible. He was able to play up-tempo versions of bop tunes such as "Cherokee" and "How High the Moon" unaccompanied on the guitar. Unlike Stanley Jordan, Pass used conventional (but superb) technique, and his Virtuoso series on Pablo still sounds remarkable decades later.
** Scott Yanow of AllMusic
* You don't often see a musician that is able to play jazz. And even less often do you stumble upon a guitar player that's as nearly as good as Joe Pass was. And what made him so unique and great was his chord-melody style playing combined with fingerpicking and impeccable improvisational skills. Joe didn't really need a whole band as he often performed solo or in duo and trio formations.
** David Slavković of Ultimate-Guitar (May 28, 2018)
# Palm mute

The palm mute is a technique for guitar and bass guitar known for its muted sound. It is performed by placing the side of the picking hand across the guitar's strings, close to the bridge, while picking. The name is a misnomer as the muting is not performed using the player's palm.
Palm muting is a standard technique used by both classical and electric guitarists. It is widely used in heavy metal and rock music but it is often found in any style of music that features electric guitars with distortion. It is responsible for the characteristic "chugging" and "crunch" sound of distorted guitar music. Palm muting can also be used in conjunction with a wah pedal to produce the distinctive scratching sound often heard in disco music.

## Quotes about the palm mute

* More than 40 years after the release of Van Halen, the opening riff in “Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love” - an arpeggiated Am-F-G5 passage played with palm-muted downstrokes - is still a favorite among beginning and intermediate pickers.
** Dale Turner of Guitar Player (October 8, 2020)
# Boogie

Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm, "groove" or pattern used in blues which was originally played on the piano in boogie-woogie music. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments. The earliest recorded boogie-woogie song was in 1916. By the 1930s, swing bands such as Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Louis Jordan all had boogie hits. By the 1950s, boogie became incorporated into the emerging rockabilly and rock and roll styles. In the late 1980s and the early 1990s country bands released country boogies. Today, the term "boogie" usually refers to dancing to pop, disco, or rock music.

## Quotes about Boogie

* In the Seventies, stateside hard-rock acts like Aerosmith, Kiss and Ted Nugent played tunes heavily rooted in blues and boogie riffs. As fans of blues-based rock acts like Led Zeppelin and Cream, Van Halen certainly weren’t immune to this influence.
** Dale Turner of Guitar Player (October 8, 2020)
# Wander Over Yonder
### The Picnic

    Lord Hater: You're too late, Emperor Awesome! The universe, will soon be MINE!
    Pan to Emperor Awesome.
    Emperor Awesome:Yeah, right, bro. I'm takin' you all the way down to Awesome Town.
    Shows Awesome riding dinosaur
    Emperor Awesome: Fire Breath!
    (The dinosaur releases fire from its mouth)
    Wander: (From a distance) Hater! Is that you? It's me, Wander! Are you here to watch the planets align, too? Look! I even packed a piiicniiiiic! I can fix it!
    Hater: No! The sooner the star being, no I said that al – GOH! WHERE WAS I?!
    Wander: (Referring to Sylvia) She wanted to come, but she had to go to the bathroom! Zbornaks go only once every like, five months? Crazy, huh? She told me it takes a while, and it's kind of embarrassing. And so she doesn't want everybody knowin' about it, so she said: (imitating Sylvia) "Wander, don't go blabbin' like ya always do!" (stops, in normal voice) Oh.
    Hater: I DON'T CARE!
    Wander: Where? Well, I don't know 'where' she's goin' to the bathroom, around here somewhere! Why do ya wanna know? (at the camera, in deep voice) Rude. (normal voice) It's okay though, 'cause I promised her I'd take pictures! (takes out a camera) Smile! (takes picture)
    (Awesome and his army laugh)
    Awesome: Dude, text me that photo!
    Hater: Peepers, Flaming Skulls, NOW!
    Commander Peepers: Already loaded, Sir.
    Hater: Eeeexcelleeeent.
    Peepers: Now Sir, the trajectory is locked, so you need to hit the trigger exactly when Awesome's troops reach the bottom of the –
    Hater: Peepers! Are you telling me what to do?!
    Peepers: Of course not, sir! Carry on.

## The Box

    Sylvia: This whole thing was a setup. There's nothin' in the box, is there?
    Lord of Illumination: Yes! Yes, you get it. Could you please help me explain?
    Wander: …or pair of socks, or pair of socks, or pair of socks, or pair of socks…
    Sylvia: LISTEN, YOU COSMIC CREEPS! My buddy here doesn't want your "greater consciousness" hullabaloo! What he wants is to see SOMETHING IN THE BOX! So, PUT… SOMETHING… IN… THE… BOX.
    Lord of Illumination: Bu-but, we are the Lords of Illumination, and I don't think you can talk to us this way. [Sylvia grabs his arm and turns his body around, making him cramp; stammering] Okay, okay, it's cool. It's cool.

## The Hat

    Sylvia: What was that back there?! Are you trying to get me eaten?! [sighs] Okay, maybe I wasn't making myself clear. We need to save Wander. So we need to go there! Without attracting attention of the giant Zbornak-eating monster. Understand?

## The Fancy Party

    Hater: Forget polite and proper. Forget witty and charming. I am NOT the ultimate gentleman! *Hater blasts Wander off his feet* I am LORD HATER! THE ULTIMATE EVIL! When I want something, I take it! And I want your power, NOW!!!
# Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as "late Baroque") and Neoclassical styles. It was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a means to counter the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art, and music, though Lutheran Baroque art developed in parts of Europe as well.
The Baroque style used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep color, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe. The style began at the start of the 17th century in Rome, then spread rapidly to the rest of Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, then to Austria, southern Germany, and Poland. By the 1730s, it had evolved into an even more flamboyant style, called rocaille or Rococo, which appeared in France and Central Europe until the mid to late 18th century. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 19th century.
In the decorative arts, the style employs plentiful and intricate ornamentation. The departure from Renaissance classicism has its own ways in each country. But a general feature is that everywhere the starting point is the ornamental elements introduced by the Renaissance. The classical repertoire is crowded, dense, overlapping, loaded, in order to provoke shock effects. New motifs introduced by Baroque are: the cartouche, trophies and weapons, baskets of fruit or flowers, and others, made in marquetry, stucco, or carved.

## Quotes about the Baroque

* From around 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period witnessed the creation of some of the greatest musical masterpieces ever composed.
** Gramophone (April 28, 2022)
# Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist, organist and composer.

## Quotes

* Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
** As quoted in Arthur Friedheim and Alexander Siloti, Remembering Franz Liszt (1961) p. 138.
* Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
** As quoted in Joseph Machlis, The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (1963) Page 107.
* Wasting time is one of the worst faults of the world. Life is so short, every moment is so precious and yet, we live as if life will never end.
** As quoted in Alan Walker, Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (1987) Page 117.
* When you write the story of two happy lovers, place them on the shores of Lake Como. I do not know a district more manifestly blessed by heaven; I've never seen another where the charms of a life of love would seem more natural [...] and start it with these words: "On the shores of Lake Como."
** As quoted From the letter to Louis de Ronchaud dated 20 September 1837
* I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.
** As quoted in Walker, 1997.

## Quotes about Liszt

* His playing was free, poetic, replete with imaginative shadings, and, at the same time, characterized by noble, artistic repose. And his technique, his virtuosity? I hesitate to speak if it. It suffices to observe that he has not lost it but has rather added to it in clarity and moderation. What a remarkable man! After a life incomparably rich and active, full of excitement, passion, and pleasure, he returns at the age of sixty-two and plays the most difficult music with the ease and strength and freshness of a youth….
** Eduard Hanslick, Music Criticisms. Translated by Henry Pleasants, Baltimore: Penguin Books Ltd., 1963, p.109-110.
* Perhaps the greatest source of wonder in Liszt's life was that he composed anything at all, let alone anything of lasting greatness. The man who, from an early age, had crisscrossed Europe as the greatest travelling virtuoso, providing, with the onset of puberty, much material for gossip columns, might have been forgiven for taking the Wildean view, 'My art is my life', and leaving it at that. [...] Exactly how Liszt could have found the time to compose is difficult to imagine.
** Kenneth Hamilton, Liszt: Sonata in B Minor (1996), Ch. 1 : Introduction
* Composer, teacher, Abbé, Casanova, writer, sage, pioneer and champion of new music, philanthropist, philosopher and one of the greatest pianists in history, Franz Liszt was the very embodiment of the Romantic spirit. He worked in every field of music except ballet and opera and to each field he contributed a significant development.
** Gramophone (January 2, 2025)

## See also

* Charles Rosen#The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 8 : Liszt: On Creation as Performance
# Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets.

## Quotes

* They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?
** As quoted at The Cult of Genius

## Quotes about Bruckner

* Anton Bruckner’s reputation rests almost entirely with his symphonies – the symphonies, someone said, that Wagner never wrote.
** Gramophone (January 2, 2025)
* We recoil in horror before this rotting odour which rushes into our nostrils from the disharmonies of this putrefactive counterpoint. His imagination is so incurably sick and warped that anything like regularity in chord progressions and period structure simply do not exist for him. Bruckner composes like a drunkard!
** Gustav Dompke, in the German Times of Vienna (1886), as quoted in Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1965) by Nicolas Slonimsky, p. 80. Also quoted with the attribution in Listening to music: the essential guide to the classical repertoire, by Jonathan Kramer, p. 198.
* Half genius, half simpleton.
** Hans von Bülow, describing Bruckner. In German "halb Genie, halb Trottel". This description is often, but mistakenly, attributed to Gustav Mahler. Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen: "»Halb Genie, halb Trottel«. Hans von Bülows Urteil über Anton Bruckner". In: IBG-Mitteilungsblatt 55 (2000), pp. 21–24.
# Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 - 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the important operas played as standards.

## Quotes
### La bohème (1896)

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after Henry Murger's novel.
* in te ravviso --il sogno ch'io vorrei sempre sognar! (Rodolfo)
** In you, I see the Dreams that I have always dreamed/longed for!
** Act I O Soave Fanciulla
* Ho tante cose che ti voglio dire, o una sola, ma grande come il mare, come il mare profonda ed infinita...Sei il mio amore e tutta la mia vita! (Mimì)
** There are many things that I want to tell you -- well, really, only one -- but that one is as large as the ocean -- as the ocean is deep and infinite, so is my love for you and it will be for all my life!
** Act IV Sono andante?

### Tosca (1900)

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after Victorien Sardou's play.
* Questo è il bacio di Tosca! (Floria Tosca)
** This is Tosca's kiss!
** Act II
* Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma. (Floria Tosca)
** Before him all Rome trembled.
** Act II

## Quotes about Giacomo Puccini

* Whatever the atmosphere he wanted to create, Giacomo Puccini’s sound world is unique and unmistakeable with its opulent yet clear-cut orchestration and a miraculous fund of melodies with their bittersweet, tender lyricism. His masterly writing for the voice guarantees the survival of his music for many years to come.
** Gramophone (January 2, 2025)
# Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 27 or 28 July 1741), nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso" (The Red Priest), was a Venetian priest and Baroque music composer as well as a famous violinist. He wrote in excess of 500 concertos plus many operas, overtures, sonatas and sacred vocal works.

## Quotes

* Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica.
** Translation: If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.
** Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90
** An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).

## Quotes about Vivaldi

* Italians have such illustrious people they can celebrate, that everyone celebrates — Michelangelo, Vivaldi and, of course, for us on the left, Sacco and Vanzetti.
** Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Interview with Democracy Now (2021)
* Overrated: Vivaldi. He has recently become Mr. Baroque, and that is not fair to Bach and Handel. His music does not have the substance, the innovative quality or the passion of the greatest composers. Of course, it's perfectly good music and it makes the listener feel good, but there is no door opening as there is with the great masters.
** Lukas Foss, quoted in "Judging Composers: High Notes, and Low", The New York Times (March 22, 1987)
* Christopher Hogwood: "Caricaturists of all countries I have a great interest in; I like to observe what happens to an artist's vision when there is a deliberate distortion for the viewer. This is found in Italian art and in much Italian music. Vivaldi sometimes uses caricature in a very serious and grim sense, not at all comic."
** Veery journal, 1994, interview with Steven Vita
* Robert Craft: “Are you interested in the current revival of eighteenth-century Italian masters?” Igor Stravinsky: “Not very. Vivaldi is greatly overrated—a dull fellow who could compose the same form so many times over.”
** In Conversations with Igor Stravinsky
* Overrated: Antonio Vivaldi. I'm tired of him. Stravinsky once said that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 500 times. I disagree. Instead, I think he began 500 concertos and never achieved anything in them. So he kept trying over and over again without ever quite succeeding.
** Charles Rosen, quoted in "Judging Composers: High Notes, and Low", The New York Times (March 22, 1987)
* With Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque music reached its zenith. The prosperous, cultivated world of contemporary Venice shines through all his works, composed with innate craftsmanship.
** Gramophone (April 28, 2022)