“Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.” ThinkingNeedsShouldKindCertainDramaJazzTensionSmoothJazz MusicCornerstonesImprovisingSmooth Jazz Author:David Sanborn
“Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos.” NeedsLongSaidMightBitsInterestingDramaTensionSoundtracksPathos Book:Losing Julia Source: Losing Julia
“For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.” PeopleMadeDoneMy OwnCrazyDesignDramaMy FamilyLifestyleMade ItOur FamilyTensionHostilityBeing Crazy Author:Dan Colen
“There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.” TryingActionDramaToughMurderRevengeTalesIceToneTensionTrickySkates Author:Walter Hill
“The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.” ArtMomentsIndividualHistoryFateDramaBattleModelsEuropeTragedyExtremesDeterminedTensionWorks Of ArtCatastropheBack AgainWaterloo Author:Stefan Zweig
“When a skater steps on the ice to compete, the nerves, the tension, and sheer suspense of that moment make for great drama.” MomentsStepsDramaIceSuspenseTensionThat MomentNervesSheerSkater Book:Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating Source: Boitano's Edge: Inside The Real World Of Figure Skating
“I've got to be honest, I absolutely don't like designing romances. I think that you get a lot more drama and impact from failed romances, or unrequited relationships that occur in games. I think that creates more player tension.” ThinkingRomancePlayerHonestDesignDramaBeing HonestTensionUnrequited Author:Chris Avellone
“Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.” StoriesAgeSchoolRomanceDramaElementsHigh SchoolDressesDancingTensionComing Of AgePromLimos Author:Adora Svitak
“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.” GuyMusicCreationDramaEssentialsEatingDestructionRemainsGuitarTensionCheeseCompositionImprovisationGood GuyMaintenanceCottagesConsonantsCreation And Destruction Author:Frank Zappa
“It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.” IfsThinkingStoriesSeemsHappensCausesEasySuccessfulComedyDramaConflictLove StoryTensionMisunderstandingIconicDiscordEscapists Author:Claire Danes
“In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.” FeelsRealEndsActingConditionsDramaDirectorsTension Author:Paul Greengrass