#piece

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#good #like #looks #minimalist #much

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ↗

— Andre Breton

#chief #excel #masterpiece #nature #those

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#assumed #blood #cd #doing #first

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#change #day #diapers #each #had

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years. ↗

— Larry Buchanan

#acting #bit #contract #doing #fox

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. ↗

— Basil Bunting

#common #jug #kind #listen #look

One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#bought #danger #did #experts #first

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say. ↗

— Victoria Azarenka

#building #go #high #high level #i

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#asking #guards #handed #here #house