Pieces Quotes - Page 33

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.

Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth.

I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

It doesn't matter how many televisions and computers and pieces of stereo equipment the Chinese send to us, even if they're sending them to us only in return for some funny, little, green pieces of paper. That is a balanced trade. They got what they wanted: the green pieces of paper. We got what we wanted: the plush toys, the computers, the stereo components.

I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.

I tend to be more interested in the trend pieces than who got a licensing deal for sunglasses, but that's not surprising.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm.

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?

A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.