Ensemble Quotes - Page 6

• If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Thinking, Yield, Feet

  "Executive Life; Learning Teamwork By Making Music" by Amy Zipkin, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2003.

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• It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!

  John Patitucci

  Swings, Groups, Needs

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• In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Believe, Ears, Accepting

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• I've always preferred Marvel over DC. I just relate to their characters better. I mean look at Wolverine, at first he was just a bit player in an ensemble cast. Now he's the only reason people read X-Men. Just like me and Scrubs.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Mean, Player

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• In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Stars, Roots

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.220, A&C Black

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• It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

  Nina Garcia

  Individuality, Safe, Refreshing

  Nina Garcia (2010). “Nina Garcia's Look Book: What to Wear for Every Occasion”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Musical

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• I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Actors, Action

  Source: www.viewlondon.co.uk

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• When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Comedy, Talent, Theater

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

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• Always make sure your jewelry isn't taking over you or your ensemble and keep everything in proportion to your frame

  Nina Garcia

  Over You, Jewelry, Proportion

  Nina Garcia (2010). “Nina Garcia's Look Book: What to Wear for Every Occasion”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
  [Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Lying, Together, Debt

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• All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

  Henry Petroski

  Design, Elements, Assumption

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.

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• At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

  Masi Oka

  Drama, Hero, Character

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• We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.

  Bill Crow

  Years, Swings, Special

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• When I was 13, 14, 15, I had played in a couple of jazz ensembles. I didn't know anything about harmony, about II-V-I, though I had learned my scales with Caesar [DiMauro].

  Jon Gordon

  Couple, Jazz, Harmony

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• It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble. But it seemed more important to me to share the vitality of Aikido and the vitality of Zen training with people, even though it would be a smaller number of people, it seemed to give them something that could last and improve their lives.

  Joseph Jarman

  Art, Numbers, Long

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• In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

  Joseph Jarman

  Art, Buddhist, Practice

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

  Lester Bowie

  Art, Chicago, Fantasy

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• We're really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It's more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship. Now that that's been established, we don't question that they love each other and what the show's about. So we can meander outside of that.

  Billy Eichner

  People, World, Lasts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

  Lester Bowie

  Play, Ideas, Two

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• An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.

  George Carlin

  Community, Groups, Doe

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• One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

  Morris Chestnut

  People, Different, Things I Love

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

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• I got to meet a lot of cool people [on the Voice], and my favorite part about the experience was getting to sit around and do little jam sessions in the hotel. We were pretty much in lockdown at the hotel in downtown Los Angeles, and there wasn't much to do. It was interesting to be in a room with someone that was a rapper next to me, a country artist, then you have someone playing a song on the keyboard, and it was just really cool as just a random ensemble.

  Curtis Grimes

  Country, Song, Rapper

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• I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

  Janina Gavankar

  Attention, Pay, Universal Themes

  Source: collider.com

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• I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in going to some ensemble someplace. Taking my lessons at the local Jewish community center on Staten Island.

  Jon Gordon

  Jobs, Islands, Community

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