9 Counterpoint Quotes for You to Enjoy

Being a boss takes guts and tenacity. Being a boss takes hustle and strength. Getting to the level of boss takes hard work - often times, harder than our male counterpoint because in many industries, we're fighting our way into a boys' club. Rachel Hollis

Work Hard Work Strength Club Fighting Our Way Hustle Guts Boss Tenacity Takes Counterpoint Industries Because Boy Male Times Than Getting Often Being Hard Many Harder Level

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing. John Edgar Wideman

Music Art Time Silence Our Our Music Marks Silences Structure Point Shapes Counterpoint African-American Spaces Rhythm Fill

They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory. Stephen Hough

Music Memory Singing Preserved Changed Keyboard Took Back Air Way Magic Somehow Above Both Inventors Piano Counterpoint Blending Sound Hear Lines Debussy Vibrations Them Ephemeral Far Chopin Deep

I spend time editing and massaging each note. Then I start layering with different instruments, adding harmonies, counterpoint, and whatever the song calls for. Then I arrange it into a whole piece, and decide where I need to add live musicians. It takes a lot of time, but it is very satisfying once it is complete. Jason Becker

Time Musicians Song Editing Whatever Live Add Harmonies Adding Complete Spend Once Takes Counterpoint Piece Instruments Calls Arrange Lot Very Where Different Decide Note Then Whole Each Satisfying Start Need

After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths. Kate Christensen

Love Day Cooking Writing Walks Whatever Meal Nothing Else Baths Way Relaxing Find Onions More Kitchen Perfect Hot Counterpoint Naps Go Hand Than Improvised After Anything Anything Else Ingredients Chopping Even Garlic Start

The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing. Charles Hazlewood

You Build Same Thing Way Slim Voice Layers Counter Counterpoint Idea Like Another Answer Accompanying Up Texture Same Then Really Your Baroque Moment Original Original Idea Thing

What seems not yet to have been sufficiently explored is the emancipating potential of the discursive form of psychoanalysis in politics as a counterpoint of marketing. Fernando Haddad

Politics Marketing Seems Potential Counterpoint Been Form Psychoanalysis Explored Sufficiently

To go straight to 'Scandal' and get to play the larger-than-life guy who has the page-long rants and gets drilled in the leg with blood flying everywhere, it was a blast. It's really been a nice counterpoint after the first season of 'The Carrie Diaries.' Matt Letscher