#posing

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#end #first-rate #gershwin #instead #lose

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#been #beginning #business #could #creative

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#good #imposing #looks #only #suits

I look around the room at some of the familiar faces and some of those who are still strangers to me. Somewhere deep within, I find the strength. The strength I was born from, that I never knew I possessed. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE ↗

— Courtney Nuckels

#courage #exposing-ele #friends #inner-strength #strength

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#composing #creating #creative #jamie-weise #love

Willow Mosby, when I look at you, all of the broken pieces fit back together. ↗

— Courtney Nuckels

#love #pieces #puzzle #relationships #love

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#everyone #lived #observe #one time #say

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#composing #different #even #every #groups

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#argue #cook #critically #how #ideas

I honestly don't think you do, at least not completely. Look, you will always hold a special place in my heart, but I can’t keep competing for a battle that’s already won. ↗

— Rebecca Gober

#heart-break #hurt #love-hurts #love