#thin

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#classical #eight #glenn #make #musicians

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#because #dates #did #everything #felt

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#get #i #imperfect #improvising #jazz

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#artistic #communities #creation #individual #mind

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#destiny #epic #experience #general #human

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#displays #expression #first #individuality #natural

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#balance #bottom #civilized #else #founded

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#bank #everybody #going #got #interested

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly. ↗

— John Abizaid

#deadly #equipment #experience #factor #funds

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here. ↗

— John Abizaid

#because #better #bin #boss #clearly