#use

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#beautifully #beethoven #composers #days #harmony

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. ↗

— David Brainerd

#conjectures #designed #discoveries #existence #faint

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing. ↗

— John Fahey

#commercial #companies #demos #doing #forget

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. ↗

— John Fahey

#being #dispassionate #explain #greatest #guitarists

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#because #depression #feel #important #important thing

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#back #come #dead #down #empty

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare. ↗

— Jo Brand

#better #better person #bitter #criticism #just

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough. ↗

— Jo Brand

#i #long-distance #lot #loved #moved

It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done. ↗

— Jo Brand

#because #difference #done #i #inevitable

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much. ↗

— Jo Brand

#comedy #defensive #easier #general #general sense