#phony

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools. ↗

— Don Henley

#drum #how #machines #phony #plastic

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been like, Wow, that was a really great performance. Because there are a lot of elements with film. It's not like stage. It's not a kind of performance art anymore; it's a highly tuned kind of collaboration - a symphony. ↗

— Vincent Kartheiser

#art #because #been #before #collaboration

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#grand #note #quarter #symphony

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#because #better #creative #jazz #jazz musician

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#creating #drummers #everything #exactly #hundred

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#beautiful #beethoven #elements #i #i think

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#orchestra #play #symphony #takes #you

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. ↗

— Georg Solti

#been #chicago #director #extremely #i

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. ↗

— James Spader

#arts #boston #common #different #different times

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it. ↗

— Vivian Stanshall

#being different #being myself #desperate #different #gang