#apes

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#basis #changing #constantly #different #different shapes

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#always #beyond #escapes #every #experience

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. ↗

— Black Elk

#being #i #i can #like #live

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#big #create #get #go #huge

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#abraham lincoln #carry #certain #characters #childhood

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day. ↗

— James Thomson

#dream #frequently #life #night #return

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#bad #chips #eat #four #fours

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? ↗

— Kanye West

#anything #except #get #god #guns

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences. ↗

— Meg White

#color #every #every second #fascination #mapped

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#charged #come #dreams #fish #hood