Composition Quote by Michael McKean Download Open image “Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?” — Michael McKean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composition Failure Jazz Mistake Music Musical Musical composition Rock n roll Series
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation. — Henry Threadgill Copy Share Image
Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it. — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark,… — Lester Bowie Copy Share
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
On film, when you're driving home from the set, you realize what you should have done, but it's too late. When you're taking the… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
I was working with Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' We were about to make an entrance together - I was Hoover, he was… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
I watch my wife knitting, and it's like watching close-up magic to me. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up… — Henri Rabaud Copy Share Image
Science does not enter a chaotic society to put order into it anymore, to simplify its composition, and to put an end to controversies.… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
