John Adams

Also known as John Coolidge Adams

John Coolidge Adams es un compositor y director de orquesta estadounidense. Entre los compositores de música clásica contemporánea que se interpretan con mayor regularidad, se destaca particularmente por sus óperas, muchas de las cuales se centran en eventos históricos. Aparte de la ópera, su obra incluye música orquestal, concertante, vocal, coral, de cámara, electroacústica y para piano.

Occupation: conductor, composer, autobiographer, librettist
Citizenship: United States
Born: February 15, 1947, 1947
Website: https://www.earbox.com

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Also known as John Coolidge Adams

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“No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.”
— Diary entry (19 February 1756)
“Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your Freedom! — I hope you will make a good use of it. — if you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the pains to preserve it. —”
— Letter to Abigail Adams (27 April 1777), published as Letter CXI in Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife (1841) edited by Charles Francis Adams, p. 218
“The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.”
— This is attributed to Adams in The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858) by Henry Stephens Randall, p. 587
“I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.”
— Autobiography (1802–1807)
“All projects of government, formed upon a supposition of continual vigilance, sagacity, and virtue, firmness of the people, when possessed of the exercise of supreme power, are cheats and delusions.”
— Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, vol. III, p. 412; also quoted in Works of John Adams, vol. VI, p. 166.
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
— As quoted by Josiah Quincy III, in Looking Toward Sunset: From Sources Old and New, Original and Selected (1865) by Lydia Maria Francis Child, p. 431

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