#tempo

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#american #american taxpayers #billion #businesses #collected

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#almost #angeles #back #between #close

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary #culture #degree #extension #geographical

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal. ↗

— Michael Giles

#actually #arranging #between #bridge #changes

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character. ↗

— Vince Gill

#character #left #only #said #success

It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records. ↗

— Vince Gill

#been #contemporary #country #country music #great

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#helped #i #imagine #inhabit #ireland

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#business #contemporaries #destiny #entered #logical

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant. ↗

— Donald Judd

#contemporary #hopper #i #i think #less

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#contemporary #fuzzy #iconography #make #out