#be

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#been #black #discussed #find #forced

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#family #i #i wonder #interesting #know

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#between #composition #elements #good #harmony

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#certain #composition #figures #important #invention

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#being #being quiet #completely #different #discovered

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#century #irregular #middle #music #particular

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#became #i #language #make #meaningful

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#body #breathing #heartbeat #identify #repetition

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#be happy #been #happy #having #home

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#becomes #composed #compress #either #extent