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“All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.”

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George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer known for his unique musical style and his integration of jazz into classical music. His works, including 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Porgy and Bess,' have had a profound impact on 20th-century music. more

“We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.”

Ifs Knows Writing Wells Said Facts Might Moral Clear Cutting Influence Lessons Hundred Labor Myth Technique Cycles Legends Sober Borrowing Kernel Moral Lessons

Book:Foundation and Earth

Source: Foundation and Earth

“In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.”

Writing Art Stories Use Today Past Fun Technology Novel Tools Let Me Patterns Available Technique Contemporary Having Fun Fabric Quilters

Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

“As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.”

People Years Stories Young Used Actors Community Company Youth Theater Prison Seven Clubs London Technique Access Hospitals Estates Units Housing Seven Years Improvisation Offenders

Author:Jenny Downham

“The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.”

Thinking Use Film Challenges Materials Projects Pops Technique Enormous Range Halls Concerts Composer Unnecessary Film Composers

Author:John Corigliano

“I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart.”

Knows Heart Kind Important Shows Age Certain Girl Sex White Deals Common Car Loneliness Weapons Standards Ugly Technique Indifference Cynicism Solitary Rabbits Unpredictability Kind Of Girl Cad

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.”

Thinking Way Writing Reading Taught Technique Related Writing And Reading

Author:John McGahern

“It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.”

Writing Firsts Sometimes Difficult Simple Seeing Painting Photography Technique Observing Simple Things

Author:Linda Olsson

“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.”

Ifs Artist Interest Doubt Technique

Book:Idiosyncrasy & Technique

Source: Idiosyncrasy & Technique

“You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.”

Heart Important Play Perfect Technique Music Love

Author:Mstislav Rostropovich

“I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.”

Ifs Men Would Be Action Ready Normal Labor Technique Reputation Eccentricity Provocation Oddities

Book:Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men

Source: Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men

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