#stripped

I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#album #albums #becomes #bloated #definitely

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#beams #behind #clouds #dark #encouraging

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#already #dancers #enough #given #know

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#others #outstripped #pay #people #real

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#come #democracy #hypocrisy #idea #imperatives

I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#down #focus #half #hard #i

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. ↗

— Ilya Ehrenburg

#character development #development #education #given #knowledge

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are. ↗

— Spike Lee

#black #brought #comes #define #down