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“I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.”

Thinking Way Sound Growth Gains Labor Performances Bases Reform Combination Permanent Improving Unemployment Reducing Adjustment Sustaining

Author:Lucas Papademos

“People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.”

People Giving Mean Hard Care Sound Break Records Performances Hard Times Who Cares Groove

Author:Christian Marclay

“I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.”

People May Done Play Sound Performances Theater Refining

Author:Nastassja Kinski

“A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.”

Doe Made Sound Views Ought Performances Died Structure Characteristics Etc Consideration Length Precise Frequency Morphology

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

Knows Important Matter Facts Sound Chance My Own Forever Wonderful Elements Built Performances Important Things Nuance Drawbacks Live Performance

Author:Aaron Copland

“Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.”

Thinking Men Art Age Beautiful Literature Sound Friendship Intellectual Tradition Performances Ripe Brethren

Book:The Intellectual Life

Source: The Intellectual Life

“The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.”

Two Real Problem Together Sound Hours Performances Collaboration Orchestra

Author:Andrew Bird

“I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.”

Thinking Art Sound Simple Performances Performance Art

Author:Amanda Palmer

“A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.”

Art Artist Sound Music Laughing Produce Tears Musician Performances Moved Listeners Torn

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.”

Ifs Want Use Form Sound One Thing Stage Shapes Performances Atmosphere Imagery

Author:Marilyn Manson

“What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.”