Theory Quotes · Page 12

I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's…

— Marilou

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

— Derek Bailey

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them…

— Robert Wyatt

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is…

— Aldous Huxley

When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever…

— Douglas Portway

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It…

— Cyril Connolly

A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of…

— Bill de Blasio

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive…

— David Stove

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

— John Ambrose Fleming

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to…

— Talcott Parsons

My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill…

— Lisa Kleypas

In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works,…

— Patrick Carney

It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his…

— Allen W. Wood

Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be…

— Alix Kates Shulman

“By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during…

— Karl Marx

The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts…

— William Whewell

I am even grateful to Einstein and others because through their erroneous theories they lead mankind away from that dangerous path I…

— Nikola Tesla

That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles]…

— Geena Davis

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader…

— Eboo Patel

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.

— Leonard Ravenhill

I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical…

— Paul Dirac

[Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a…

— Daniel Kahneman

My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it,…

— Ingvar Kamprad