#ear

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. ↗

— John Searle

#concerned #exposition #follow #i #maxim

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#about #drum #every #every time #everybody

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#desire #i #live #loving #music

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#beginning #ending #everyone #had #how

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#crude #demonstrated #devotion #fact #feeling

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#art #conductor #gift #men #musical

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#advanced technology #after #allowing #architecture #buildings

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#ago #anything #does #fifty #nobody

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#america #available #based #buildings #century

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#himself #many #whom