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I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
Ben Lovett
Success
Funny
Music
Think
Imagination
Guess
Bit
Something
More
Obscure
Had
Touring
Like
Perhaps
Leave
American
Quite
Maybe
Which
Explanation
Might
Noticed
Who
Acts
Shy
British
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.
Bill Toomey
Culture
Society
Relatively
Ancient
About
Obscure
Investigate
Most
Understand
Years
Just
So Many Years
Transformed
Meaning
Really
Roots
Games
Many
Necessary
Olympians
I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
Camille Paglia
Teacher
Art
Nature
Business
School
Obscure
Study
Study Nature
New
Parties
Perks
Limited
Am
Go
Years
Art School
York
Just
New York
Staff
Career
What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
Carolyn See
Human Being
Angel
Late
Marsh
Totally
Obscure
Never
Almost
Like
Couple
Another
Coming
Human
Maybe
Being
Anyway
Acknowledging
Hollywood
Speaking
Cool
Even
Playing
Nightclub
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.
Casey Abrams
Love
Music
Great
Queen
Listening
Singing
Jazz
Type
Favorite
Would
Would-Be
Some
Tenacious
Voices
Obscure
Sing
Because
Rock
Rock And Roll
Led
Led Zeppelin
Very
Roll
Just
Them
Zeppelin
'Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.
Chester Brown
Girl
Way
Out
See
Seem
Faces
Seems
Through
Obscure
Almost
Concentrate
Like
Wanted
Much
Really
Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.
Constantin Brancusi
Work
God
You
Joy
Pure
Seen
Those
See
Pure Joy
Mystery
Obscure
Look
Until
Offer
Closest
Formulas
Them
Sculptures
After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
Daniel Barber
Achieve
Earth
Latest
Defining
Through
Obscure
Idea
Involves
Go
Camera
Ends
Want
After
Whether
Storyboard
Lenses
Create
Electronic
Series
Techniques
Images
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
Dennis Potter
Love
Too Much
Too
See
Obscure
To Love
Much
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
Desiderius Erasmus
Nothing
Various
Obscure
Clearly
Known
Affairs
Human
Human Affairs
When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.
Dick Morris
History
People
Entitled
Some
Pretty
Obscure
Written
Sainthood
Going
The History Of
Century
Who
Re-election comes every six years, which explains why I spend so much time on Twitter. If you're an obscure judge whose name ID hovers between infinitesimal and zilch, it's political malpractice to neglect social media. I'm probably the tweetingest judge in America, which, admittedly, is like being the tallest Munchkin in Oz.
Don Willett
Time
You
Judge
Political
Social Media
Every
Twitter
Neglect
Spend
Admittedly
Obscure
ID
Between
Re-Election
Name
Like
Tallest
Years
Malpractice
America
Six
Being
So Much Time
Oz
Which
Explains
Social
Much
Media
Whose
Why
We may have city lights and the glow of touch screens to obscure our view, but God's world is still near at hand, even right here in New York City where I live.
Eric Metaxas
God
World
Live
Our
City
Touch
Obscure
Lights
New
Glow
Still
Hand
York
May
New York
New York City
Where
Screens
View
Even
Near
Right
Here
Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.
Ethan Coen
Music
Kind
Van
Scene
Dave
Obscure
He
Knew
Liked
Biggest
Figure
Niche
Playing
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
Ezra Furman
Life
Great
Soul
Old
My Life
Bassist
Records
Obscure
Opened
Lot
Up
My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.
Fernando Botero
Art
Good
Needs
Painting
Believe
Design
Everything
Tell
Composition
Directly
Color
Obscure
He
Divorce
Between
Feels
Talk
Without
Modern
Modern Art
Often
Where
Whether
Explain
Them
Viewer
Who
Popularity
Professor
You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
Gavin Newsom
Life
You
People
Bit
Having
Only
Fact
Obscure
Name
Know
Make
Without
Maudlin
Get
Front
Difference
Title
Your
Lives
Thing
Profound
Chance
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
George Berkeley
Truth
Darkest
Long
Eye
See
Some
Obscure
Glimpse
Discern
Subject
May
Use
Even
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.
Grimes
Music
You
Learning
Natural
Once
About
Obscure
Pursuit
Put
Learning Curve
Very
Effort
Human
Human Beings
Curve
Natural Thing
Beings
Fast
Thing
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Kid
Would
Obscure
Knew
Curator
Quite
Want
Then
Notion
Even
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
Hans Zimmer
Day
You
Conversation
Director
Solitude
Writing
Somebody
Long
Picture
Whatever
Keyboard
All Day
Hopefully
Wrestle
Something
More
Obscure
Studio
Head
Come
Like
Ideas
Still
Sounds
Gets
Done
Place
Then
Shows
Away
I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
Harland Williams
Try
Something
Obscure
Take
Put
Weird
Piece
Subject
Normal
Normal Things
Very
Whether
Them
Toast
Serious
Things
Twist
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
Henry Miller
Work
Good
Great
Communication
Mysteries
Important
Few
Secondary
Those
Must
Only
Except
Obscure
Like
Himself
Great Work
Reader
Inevitably
Perpetuation
Very
Author
Which
Then
Who
Initiated
Necessary
If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.
Hilary Mason
Good
You
Long
Find
About
Something
Obscure
Learn
Because
Much
Good Chance
Fascinating
Chance
I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Horace
Become
Strive
Obscure
Brief
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Hosea Ballou
Become
Obscure
Never
Brief
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