"Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided."

Fact, Pleasure, Satisfaction

33

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided."

Exlpore more Fact quotes

"Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we who write it or edit it or read it. But SF can in principle deal with anything."

John Sladek, American Author

Fact, Nothing, Poverty

"In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer."

Naomi Campbell, British Model

Fact, Newspapers

"I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Fact, Facts, Machine

"The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one."

F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher

Fact,

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Fact, Mind

"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary."

Harold Bloom, American Critic

Fact, Mind, Psychology, Shakespeare

"Attitudes are more important than facts."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

Fact, Facts

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Fact, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well."

Michael Chertoff, American Civil Servant

Fact, Now, Perspective, Years

"In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property."

Potter Stewart, American Judge

Fact, Liberty, Property, Right

Explore more quotes by Leo Ornstein

"I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music."

Music

"Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract."

Music

"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising."

First

"No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music."

Music

"But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple."

Music

"Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express."

Now

"Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether."

May

"When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there."

Right

"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."

Difference

"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing."

Music