#piece

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture." ↗

— John Cage

#better #culture #distraction #entertainment #listen

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way. ↗

— John Zorn

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That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#because #big #big problems #brahms #distressing

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. ↗

— Dave Barry

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The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#because #better #cut #eat #enough

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

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It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece. ↗

— David Brock

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