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For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me. Morton Feldman
Me Think State Unless Flute Know Instrument Hear Person Arts Want Plays
I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it. Morton Feldman
Life My Life Living Finally Way All My Life Minor Been Handle Found Second
I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory! Morton Feldman
You Woman Memory Complicated Recipes Once Tell Married Eat Could Most Call Taste Anything Who Now Her
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin. Ned Rorem
Humor Three Sides Ability See Coin
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. Ned Rorem
Perceptions Arguably He Sheds Ceases Up Artist Childhood Being Grows
Art means to dare - and to have been right. Ned Rorem
Art Dare Been Means Right
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of. Ned Rorem
Music Speak Because Arts Meaning Hardest
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. Ned Rorem
Day Hoping Divine Fires Recurrence Blaze Artist Each Each Day Functions
I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true. Nobuo Uematsu
Music Game People Believe Would Something True Like Equal Still Effect Just Game Music Show Who Therefore Incorporated
I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous. Nobuo Uematsu
Jealous Time Good People Good Time Think More Somewhat Pursue Know How Than American Japanese American People Really Fun Reserved
Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music. Nobuo Uematsu
Music Only Celtic Celtic Music Interest Certainly
I always begin to compose the melody first. Nobuo Uematsu
First Melody Compose Always Begin
So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future. Nobuo Uematsu
Music Future Clear Head Terms Where Want Plan Really
However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically. Nobuo Uematsu
Think Dramatically Someone Environment Terms Sound However Truly Effects Improved Create Now Startle
When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert. Nobuo Uematsu
You Better Final About Idea Talk Concert La Selling List After Center Fantasy Series Base Started Set
And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries. Nobuo Uematsu
Music Strange Think Other States Find Similar Something Only Factor Countries Very Celtic Celtic Music Common China Japan Asian Asian Countries Europe Even Element United United States
I believe that there are many interesting projects that are potentially possible for me other than game music, and therefore in my mind there are several things that are being contemplated. Nobuo Uematsu
Music Me Game Mind Believe Other Projects Several Possible Potentially Contemplated Than Being Interesting Game Music Many Therefore Things
It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era. Nobuo Uematsu
Family Difficult Someone Computer Particular Sound Era Surprise Very Startle
The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert. Nobuo Uematsu
Future Will Black Recording Completed Hopefully Able Sometime Concert Tracks Been Currently Process Basic Second Album
Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general. Nobuo Uematsu
Good You Husband Sister Older Characteristics Pretty Angeles Per Pretty Good Give General Rather Idea Perhaps Well Los Los Angeles Impression Than American Therefore Good Idea
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel. Oscar Levant
Phony Lies Real Tinsel Behind Hollywood
I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does. Oscar Levant
Think He Does Lot Much
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum. Peter Maxwell Davies
You Feedback Performers Audience Get Going Working Your Vacuum
I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion. Peter Maxwell Davies
Hope Other Medium Williams John Composed Boston Piece Well Occasion Did Any Done Pops Ever Recently
The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about. Peter Maxwell Davies
Best People Related Out Possible About Factor Highest Demands Concerned Very Going
You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances. Peter Maxwell Davies
You Circumstances Underestimate Audience Any Any Circumstances Either Players
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