#stale

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. ↗

— John Zorn

#bad performance #check #classical #comfortable #fact

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music. ↗

— Andy Gibb

#business #get #i #i think #music

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues. ↗

— Evan Davis

#become #every #good #good way #issue

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#enough #exhaust #get #good #high

You can get stale writing with each other for a while. ↗

— Barry Mann

#get #other #stale #while #writing

'I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#be kind #boring #borrows #bunch #definitely

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#gone #got #had #how #i

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#better #crafted #film #great #great idea

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do. ↗

— Rob Portman

#attacking #been #fresh #fresh ideas #ideas

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#god #how #me #seem #stale