#arte

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops. ↗

— Jon Anderson

#beatles #been #chops #happy #how

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#adapting #alone #banks #bone #book

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. ↗

— Robert Ashley

#i #interested #kind #me #only

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#atomic #been #chemical #conclusions #could

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#above #back #big #connecticut #cube

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#angles #art #art form #ask #best

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#because #first #frightened #i #lot

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. ↗

— Terry Brennan

#happen #his #loses #quarterback #thing

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#back #because #came #give #give me

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science. ↗

— Hal Clement

#only #perfectly #right #science #speculation