#hears

The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#born #composer #difference #equipment #hears

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#get #good #gotten #great #groups

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#days #fall #few #i #lost

It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#icon #kid #like #meeting #rehearsal

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. ↗

— George Eliot

#folly #half #hears #laughter #vain

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#harder #know #low #low budget #much

We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones. ↗

— Kerry King

#because #could #gear #get #haven

The truth needs so little rehearsal. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#needs #rehearsal #truth

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#atmosphere #business #complete #family #film

If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know. ↗

— Jonathan D. Spence

#experience #hearsay #knowledge #observation #experience