“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.” PeopleSaidCountryYoungSongFatherMistakeRecordsPiecesCenturyGrewPaperGrew UpSacredNotesPianoRepeatsTunesHeritagePeasantsDon't ChangeChoirFiddleGospel Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?” TwoMistakePiecesCuttingIntellectualKnivesSurgerySplitting Book:Essays in Zen Buddhism Source: Essays in Zen Buddhism
“I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.” ImportantMistakePiecesMaking MistakesPractise Author:Wayne McGregor
“You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.” IfsMistakePiecesGainsAdvantageFortuneExtraordinaryReputationHonourYou ChooseExpectingGood Fortune Book:History of Greece Source: History of Greece
“Why make a biopic if it's not somehow helping us now? There's really no point. If it's not informing how we can do things differently now and maybe not repeat our mistakes, than why do this piece about this person or this event?” IfsPersonsHelpingCan DoMistakePiecesEventsRepeatsNo PointInforming Author:Dustin Lance Black
“The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.” IfsMadeMistakePiecesChangedPaperToolsPracticalsMade ItDesignerNecksAcademicPencilsErasers Author:Hyman Rickover