John Petrucci Using open strings is a great way to add texture and atmosphere to any chord progression. – John Petrucci Add Quotes Atmosphere Quotes Chord Quotes Progression Quotes Strings Quotes Texture Quotes By adding open strings to even the simplest chords, you can create voicings that sound sophisticated, but are really easy (and fun) to play. They’re practical, not intimidating, and most certainly don’t sound like ‘jazz chords.’ Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading – the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.
Finn Wittrock Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There’s a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day. – Finn Wittrock
Roscoe Mitchell When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that’s always there. That’s not often that that happens. – Roscoe Mitchell
Nicholas Hammond If Spider-Man had to appear on the 90th floor of the Empire State Building, the crew would take the elevator up, open the window and say: ‘OK, Nicholas, out you go!’ There were no tricks or computer effects. – Nicholas Hammond
AloneGilbert K ChestertonHealth Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. – Gilbert K Chesterton
MoneyMother TeresaPeace Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given. – Mother Teresa
Margarita Simonyan In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms – of freedom of speech, of everyone’s right to speak up – the U.S. has now become a beacon, a leader, in this movement to shut everyone up. That’s so disappointing. – Margarita Simonyan
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