#ff

Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance. ↗

— John Zorn

#bad performance #check #classical #comfortable #fact

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ↗

— Ovid

#acquainted #affliction #am #better #does

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing. ↗

— John Zorn

#closed #ears #get #going #great

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#care #freelance #head #i #i am

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#being #challenge #complacent #differently #ideas

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#day #getting #off #paper #pick

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work. ↗

— John Zorn

#dedicated #even #homes #i #line

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#did #different #different world #everyone #live

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#hard #hard work #how #less #much