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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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