#ear

With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.' ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#clear #fantasy #fly #like #lose

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire. ↗

— John Legend

#ear #fire #play #training #trial

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet. ↗

— John Legend

#get #hearing #i #listen #lot

I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season. ↗

— John Legend

#cool #fall #frequently #get #i

When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#arrangements #back #combination #composed #few

Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears. ↗

— John Legend

#come #crowd #energy #me #moment

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age. ↗

— John Legend

#also #amazing #around #artists #emotional

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#bach #began #compose #fifteen #had

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#great #i #lee #like #most

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#angry person #cell #cell phone #go #hear