"Sometimes I need silence; sometimes I need voices around - but not too loud or distinctive. I guess it depends on the piece in question, what stage I'm in. I think some voices can help me not to try too hard - especially at the beginning stages. Does that make sense? By some voice I mean, low chatter in the room. When there's low chatter in the room, I'm a little more relaxed, my mind might be a little more open."

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Paul Lisicky

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.”
“If charisma were rain, Blackman would be a desert.”
“Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage”
“When I go to an opera performance and sit there while people are cheering and shouting "bravo," I sometimes ask myself what exactly they're cheering about. And I even see myself as an artist who also knows how to enjoy other people's performances.”
“It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.”
“Under the seams runs the pain.”

Source : Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf
“I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.”
“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.”

Source : "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 128), 2004.

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