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“Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.”

Feels Whole Song Sound Chance Simple Example Personality Tunes Bucks Straightforward Being Straightforward Bakersfield

Author:Juice Newton

“Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.”

Giving Beautiful Sound Chance Instruments Mediums

Book:John Marin

Source: John Marin

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

Knows Important Matter Facts Sound Chance My Own Forever Wonderful Elements Built Performances Important Things Nuance Drawbacks Live Performance

Author:Aaron Copland

“I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.”

Source: Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel

“I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.”

Ifs Giving Sound Chance Player Picks Baseball Trade Edges Mickey Durability

Author:Gabe Paul

“Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.”

Years Sound Chance Seasons Sight Blessed Green Corners Treasure Stealing Exquisite Lanes Countryside Flowering Pastures Affluent Withering Thrice

Book:A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days

“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving May Moments Hands Sound Chance Accepting Music Birth Musician Jazz Notes Leaving Tiny Holes Impression Intense Bitter Melody

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.”

Enjoy Sound Chance Results Streets Policy Wall Investing Average Reasonable Investors

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!”

Ifs Way May Persons Ideas Sound Chance Greater Stupid Opposites Contrary Stupid Person

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan