Stravinsky said that composition is selective improvisation, meaning that the same kernel of an idea that you have up on the stand as a jazz musician is the same one you write down as a composer.


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A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many ...
CHRIS PAVONE
I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's ...
CHRIS RIDDELL
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, ...
CHRIS KILHAM
2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually u...
CHRIS LARSEN
It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And th...
CHRIS EVANS
Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because eve...
CHRIS MONEYMAKER
We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all ...
CHRIS STAPLETON
I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te...
CHRIS CORNELL
We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted t...
CHRIS WEDGE
My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
CHRIS PRATT
Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers...
CHRIS CHOCOLA
You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d...
CHRIS LOWE
In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really...
CHRIS CORNELL
I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actor...
CHRIS MESSINA
It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shir...
CHRIS SQUIRE
If you're in the WWE, it's like show business boot camp. You learn a little bit about everyt...
CHRIS JERICHO
And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1...
CHRIS ANDERSON
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu...
CHRIS MATTHEWS
If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete ...
CHRIS DIAMANTOPOULOS
I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
CHRIS PINE
I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
CHRIS KIRKPATRICK
I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getti...
CHRIS CHRISTIE
Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as co...
CHRIS MARTIN
'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breat...
CHRIS PAVONE
I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup...
CHRIS YOUNG
Some of the greatest reality television we ever had was the moon landings. When you think about it, ...
CHRIS HADFIELD
The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people ...
CHRIS O'DONNELL
Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.
CHRIS BURKMENN
'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have...
CHRIS PINE
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or &#...
CHRIS WARE
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled tot...
CHRIS MARTIN
Keep your enemies in front of you
CHRIS MATTHEWS
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the sim...
CHRIS ABANI
There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Fr...
CHRIS CRUTCHER
...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better b...
CHRIS CRUTCHER
Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.
CHRIS BRADFORD
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
CHRIS HEIMERDINGER
In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.
CHRIS BRADFORD
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black gu...
CHRIS ROCK
You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to...
CHRIS STEWART
I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers...
CHRIS CLEAVE
Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no l...
CHRIS BRADFORD
seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll
CHRIS BRADFORD
The impossible becomes possible if only your mind believes it.
CHRIS BRADFORD
You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that y...
CHRIS ROCK
Next Big Thing -- you hear all that crap. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't psyched.
CHRIS O'DONNELL
Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going...
CHRIS BOWKETT
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is im...
CHRIS EVERT
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
CHRIS EVERT