“Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.” WritingLooksPiecesNiceDown AndVery Nice Author:John Sandford
“Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?” GivingEnoughValuesAsksRoomsCreativePiecesBuddhismBalancePaperHarmonyDown AndListsSuperficialAdopting Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.” ThinkingLittlesArtWantedStrongAbilityBreakStudyPiecesSeriousExpressionSingingArt IsDown AndDetailsBrokeVisualsHere And ThereExpressiveVisual ArtCrossover Author:Laura Joplin
“Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.” YearsMindI CanIdeasSometimesRememberMemoriesPiecesWrittenHavensPaperSixYears AgoDown AndBlueMusclesChordsMuscle Memory Author:Ryan Adams
“Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character ... A good deal like human beings.” HumansRealCharacterCareBeautifulHuman BeingsDealsPiecesDown AndDon't CareI Don't CareServantSatFurnitureMistreatedReal Character Book:SHOW BOAT SO BIG CIMARRON Source: SHOW BOAT SO BIG CIMARRON
“If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.” IfsWorldNeedsFeelsWritingTryingYearsMeanTwoEnoughCarePiecesThis WorldRight NowDown AndTwo YearsCrapOverwhelmedMcdonaldsHamburgersFries Author:Corey Taylor
“If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you're a worthy nemesis, I want to see your handwriting. I want to see your name and your address, and if you don't have the guts to give me those, then you're not a worthy nemesis.” IfsWantGivingShouldWritingHateNamesPiecesPaperGive MeDown AndWorthyGutsAddressesMailCourtesyHate MeHandwritingNemesis Author:Kathleen Hanna
“When I have just sat down and tried to write the lyrics of a song, usually about half of it sounds like bullshit. I just have to go away from something and come back to it again later. I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.” WritingLittlesTogetherSongSoundHalfForeverPiecesPersonalityDown AndFinishedMoodSatGoing AwayTake MeBullshitEditingSwitching Author:Matt Berninger
“People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation.” PeopleRealHelpingProblemWalksPiecesJourneyConditionsPicksExpectationsDown AndFixedGet BackReal Love Author:Brooke Fraser
“I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am sitting with the writers. I'm discussing ideas with the writers and concepts. We're debating and having a dialectic where we are taking a lot of different ideas and trying to synthesize them into the right idea. I'm very much a part of that process. That's my job as the director.” TryingKindIdeasDifferentJobsProcessPiecesDirectorsSittingConceptsDown AndSatDiscussingDialecticsDifferent IdeasRight Ideas Author:Larry Charles
“My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.” YearsLooksPlayPracticeGonePiecesTeachingDadPaperDown AndGuitarMy DadMapsNotebookCords Author:Jason Aldean
“But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central emotional event of the whole movie was a tree being cut down. And the entire movie, essentially, is saying, "If we let the military industrial complex trash the place that we're living in, we will have committed an epic crime."” IfsLooksMadeWholePiecesCuttingTreeMilitaryEventsCrimeEmotionalDown AndComplexesCommittedEntertainmentEpicTrashMilitary Industrial Complex Author:Edward Norton
“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.” LooksLongDifferentPlayActorsEmotionPiecesProduceQuietPicksDown AndSensitiveDramaticSymphonyUps & DownsDifferent Emotions Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.” SaidDifferentWholeBitsKnowingPiecesWrittenHeardStyleDown AndHonestlySatLiarsRapperBits And Pieces Author:Bun B
“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.” IfsWantShouldWritingProblemUnderstandingRoomsPiecesPaperCatDown AndGet UpSettlingAcquireSerenityDesksLampsSereneSettling Down Author:Muriel Spark
“If you're able to build from your falls you'll be unstoppable and damn near fearless. You see, every time you fall down and get back up, you add another piece of body armor to yourself. You learn what not to do, how to do better, and how to create comfort through practice.” IfsBodyAbleFallPracticePiecesComfortDown AndAddFearlessDamnGet BackFalling DownArmorUnstoppable Book:The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life) Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)