#themes

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#composer #favorite #fifth #find #his

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#architect #birthday #britney #britney spears #buildings

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#am #cover #extreme #fate #gun

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. ↗

— David Copperfield

#disappeared #figures #magic #modern #occult

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#big #creating #deal #grand #i

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#certain #experience #i #interest #kill

And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did. ↗

— James Denton

#could #course #did #funny #heightens

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #i write #never #really #themes

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war. ↗

— Anna Torv

#big #like #love #most #most amazing

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#basic #certain #cultures #disparate #emerging