#phony

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#criticism #despise #european #film #film criticism

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#basically #become #company #demands #enormous

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#clutches #left #memories #phony #safe

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#assumed #else #everybody #everybody else #familiarity

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in. ↗

— River Phoenix

#commercials #i #just #like #me

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. ↗

— David Ives

#instruments #invent #less #more #only

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time. ↗

— Jimmy Johnson

#care #ceo #coach #every #every time

People striving for approval from others become phony. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#become #others #people #phony #striving

While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#barriers #beautiful #breaking #brotherhood #country