“I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.” LittlesLanguageCenturyDisciplineAskingLovelyComposerPointingControversySpontaneitySurrealist Book:A Virgil Thomson reader Source: A Virgil Thomson reader
“The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.” WellsGrowsRichDisciplineGardenFruitSchedulesSpontaneity Author:John Piper
“Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.” WorldSelfStyleParticularSourceBalanceDisciplineFlowBreathsSimplicityFlightReasonableComposerSensibilitySelf DisciplineSpontaneityProvincesRefinementSophistication Author:Aaron Copland
“Live theatre is great. I loved doing the League live because you get that element of spontaneity, but then when I'm doing live I start to crave the precision of filming. It's a different discipline; it's like a scalpel and you're very precise suddenly. It's scary as well because you think this is it, this is my one go at making it if I can the best it can be, because this is how it's going to be remembered and rendered and left on this film indelibly. And people are going to look back on this and that's that.” PeopleThinkingDifferentFilmDisciplineScaryTheatreLeagueSpontaneity Author:Reece Shearsmith
“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.” WritingSometimesEmotionCreationDisciplineElementsDrunkRestraintSoberSpontaneity Book:Reuben, Reuben: A Novel Source: Reuben, Reuben: A Novel