"In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor."

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Leo Ornstein

#Writing Quotes #Important Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.”
“I'm big-busted... I can't always wear the cutest bras, and it makes me so mad.”
“Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!”
“The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.”
“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”
“We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some new historical order will emerge. We cannot be sure what that order will be. Concretely, we may symbolize the first bifurcation as the effect of the world revolution of 1968 which continued up to and including the so-called collapse of the communisms in 1989, the social bifurcation.”
“To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.”
“There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.”

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