Building Quote by James Lapine Download Open image “You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.” — James Lapine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Music Musical Theoretical You
I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory. — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music, you’re creating… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck. — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to… — James Blake Copy Share Image
You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out. — George Russell Copy Share Image
Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing. — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed writing the adaptation of 'Into The Woods.' I thought it was wonderful to not be the director, frankly. I really enjoyed… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I'm a hippie child of the '60s. What drives me crazy about mass media entertainment is that it's so often devoid of any ideas. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I'm never so into the three-act movie thing. I know that's the form that people talk about, but it seems to me, in the… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I just don't really think of career. I've never been driven by career. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I did 'Impromptu,' which was a thrill and a horror all at once - my first movie and having to do it in Paris,… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image