#sly

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously. ↗

— Alton Brown

#extraordinarily #i #i do #myself #seriously

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet. ↗

— Chris Brown

#around #dream #fun #having #i

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it. ↗

— Alton Brown

#becomes #bright #concept #enough #excited

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. ↗

— Earle Brown

#beginning #cage #changes #concepts #consciously

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now. ↗

— Louise Brown

#i do #meant #now #obviously #then

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. ↗

— Joe Williams

#aesthetic #almost #between #bringing #forget

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#fine #first #idea #obviously #opera

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet! ↗

— Deborah Bull

#acting #argue #every #expect #juliet

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing. ↗

— Chris Burke

#called #friends #gene #gene kelly #how

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. ↗

— Ken Burns

#accurate #america #century #curiously #jazz