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“I look at melody as rhythm.”

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Charlie Parker, born on August 29, 1920, was an influential jazz saxophonist and composer from the United States. His unique musical style had a profound impact on the development of jazz. more

“Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.”

Individual Teaching Source Miracle Bounds Leaving Casts Appeals Aesthetic Editing Testament New Testament Plasters

Book:Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

Source: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began.”

Mind Kind Two Ideas Film Process Directors Elements Approach Perfection Thrive Internals Filmmaking Harvest Defects Variation Hitchcock

Author:Walter Murch

“The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.”

Men Want Desire Eternal Assuming Usual Essays Filters Totality Reproach Transitory

Author:Theodor Adorno

“Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.”

Wanted Labels Narrative Contemplation Nonfiction Flexible

Book:Reality Hunger

Source: Reality Hunger

“In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst into song and dance, when every breath they take is heightened-and makes an entire picture of such pinnacles.”

Moments Song Actors Breaths Musical Seconds Thrilling Pinnacle Rouge Song And Dance

Author:Elvis Mitchell

“Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence, we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are.”

People Goal Clear Design Products Consequence Making Money Apples

Author:Steve Jobs

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