#piece

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ↗

— Nadia Boulanger

#cleaning #denied #lack #life #masterpiece

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#away #back #be nice #dance #done

I don't look like someone who leans on a mantelpiece with a cocktail in my hand, you know. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#hand #i #know #leans #like

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

#composed #composer #i #like #makes

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#being #deeply #dragging #emotions #end

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#editor #even #free #friends #giving

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#back #because #came #give #give me

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#basic #been #clause #contracts #first

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#different #different things #each #i #instruments

There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff. ↗

— Donald J. Carty

#important #important stuff #limit #number #people