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“Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?”

Water Nature Lines Written Wind Rivers Sheets Publish Sheet Music

Author:John Muir

“One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of the subject, its symbolism and formality, its baffling terminology, its apparent delight in lengthy calculations: these tend to obscure its real nature. A musician would be horrified if his art were to be summed up as "a lot of tadpoles drawn on a row of lines"; but that"s all that the untrained eye can see in a page of sheet music... In the same way, the symbolism of mathematics is merely its coded form, not its substance.”

“Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.”

Process Guides Suggestions Sheets Recipes Assembly Manuals Sheet Music

Book:The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen

Source: The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen

“If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.”

Ifs Wells Reading Voice Differences Written Poet Instruments Staring Sheets Humming Sheet Music

Author:Robert Pinsky

“I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.”

People Littles Together Certain Pieces Little Things Songwriters Sheets Here And There Sheet Music

Author:Frank Fairfield

“The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about the same every time. But jamming is different. Jamming is when you make the music. When you improvise and adapt to conditions. When you are creative.”

Different Sound Answers Creative Conditions Method Assets Conventional Sheets Right Answers Allocation Wrong Answers Asset Allocation Sheet Music

Author:John Kao

“I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.”

People My Own Listening Intuition Sheets Listening To Others Sheet Music

Author:Brian May

“I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.”

I Can Sheets Just Listen Sheet Music

Author:Scott Weiland

“It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.”

Trying Heart Play Realizing Pieces Starting Melody Sheets Unfamiliar Sheet Music

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.”

Men Hands Eye Fall Sides Boys Doors Streets Tears Broken Right Now Ears Cheeks Sheets Torn Deaf Heartbeat Anthem Crescendo Deaf Ears Sheet Music

Book:Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Source: Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

“Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.”

Keys Piano Sheets Lungs Ribs Touch Me Piano Keys Sheet Music

Book:Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Source: Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

“If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.”

Ifs Giving Feels Red Tired Sheets Bulls Midway Red Bull Sheet Music

Author:Steve Martin

“I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.”

Writing I Can Song Stuff My Own Music Computer Sheets Because I Can Writing Songs Keyboards Sheet Music

Author:Alicia Witt

“There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.”

Rooms Practice Sheets Comforting Sheet Music

Author:Andrew Bird