#piece

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#depended #focus #hearing #mother #music

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#because #change #furniture #hang #i

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#bush #claim #conventions #decision #deny

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#avoid #big #book #cannot #consciousness

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. ↗

— Toby Young

#column #fired #firing #first #got

The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#bunch #could #creativity #else #food

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#also #complex #composing #fantastic #frank

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#into #leadership #pieces #prioritize #role

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ↗

— Andre Gide

#been #begins #created #ever #great

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.' ↗

— Emily Giffin

#bags #big #call #clutches #husband