#simple

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#cask #cellar #child #course #first

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. ↗

— Liz Phair

#back #doing #everything #five #hurt

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#attract #dress #laws #shall #simplest

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#already #arrived #know #only #simple

Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it. ↗

— Trevor Rabin

#get #i #i do #melody #quite

In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#branch #cook #could #dish #eat

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time. ↗

— Terry Riley

#because #built #called #came #global

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#distractions #eating #fine #flavor #food

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#huge #idea #like #make #me

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #complex #easy #i #motivation