#iv

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#back #every #every time #gigs #hear

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#become #believe #conduct #difficult #habitual

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#ear #find #give #i #i do

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#going #great #idea #instead #just

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#elements #finished #many #much #music

I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#debate #decision #family #i #insert

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#art #beyond #define #depths #difficult

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#composer #differs #each #negative #performance

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

#how #live #living #make #obviously

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. ↗

— John Adams

#contrived #country #ever #his #imagination