Crafts Quotes - Page 16

• We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.

  Ian Gillan

  Song, Years, Purple

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on song craft but that was still fun, something you could listen to and love and even dance to, but not hate yourself in the morning. I think I did that. Most of my lyrics come from my own personal journals that I have kept over the years.

  Stella Soleil

  Song, Morning, Fun

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• DJ-ing itself is not just about playing songs. The art of DJ-ing is presenting new songs to the crowd that they haven't heard before and creating a party vibe that's different than just listening to anybody's playlist. It's the only way to truly be big and respected in your craft.

  TyDi

  Song, Art, Creating

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell they're doing. They may tell you around the dining room table that you're funny and you should be an actor, but until you challenge yourself by getting on a stage or in front of a camera, that's when your knowledge of the craft separates you from the pretenders.

  Dustin Diamond

  Jobs, Fake, Challenges

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.

  Morris Chestnut

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "'The Best Man Holiday' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Australia, Hip Hop

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Ornaments

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.261, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

  Emily Rios

  Beautiful, Art, Character

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• Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Style

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• The moment we think we're masters of our crafts is the moment we've lost the hunger to become masters of our crafts.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Hunger, Moments

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2017

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• Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

  Max von Sydow

  Fun, Wells, Knows

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• I love working with my hands. The computer has taken over my life in a way that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm trying to find a happy medium that gives me freedom but also still goes back to the idea of craft.

  Matana Roberts

  Taken, Hands, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be challenging at times because it doesn't fit people's stereotypes of a technical founder.

  Kevin Systrom

  People, Appreciate, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.

  Andrea Davis Pinkney

  Writing, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

  Joseph Boyden

  Challenges, Stories, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whenever someone asks me craft questions like that I feel like I can give one of two answers. I can give the academy answer and say that it was very deliberate and I had a plan in mind and I executed that plan exactly to the letter. But this isn't the case.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Two, Giving, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.

  Etgar Keret

  Passion, Writing, America

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to "critique" as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Art, Issues, Water

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

  Sebastian Roche

  Moving, Adversity, Giving

  Interview with Robert Piper, nicheandnook.com. August 24, 2015.

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• If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English.

  Elliott Colla

  Writing, Fiction, I Have Learned

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Mistake, Years, Polish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Issues, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others.

  Mary J. Miller

  Want, Able, Instinct

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount the wheel to a horse carriage or a Formula One racing car, make it plain or give it spinning rims, those are all craft decisions. But the fact of the wheel remains: it will turn if you set it down. That's what I mean about the beauty of the gifts genre can offer.

  Chris Abani

  Horse, Mean, Giving

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm a big devotee of the short line, of couplets and tercets, and of irregular stanzas with lots of white space. I've got to give the dense language room to breathe!

  Anna Journey

  Always On My Mind, White, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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