Diatonic Quotes

#1. Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

Paul Lansky

#2. To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

Lena Dunham

#4. I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

Jamie Sives

#5. I always tell my students that you can do anything you can get away with, that implausibility is a problem of style. If people bring issues of plausibility to bear on what you're doing, you're not doing it well enough.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. Over hill and under hill

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

Abbott L. Lowell

#8. Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.

Dan Henderson

#9. Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.

Mario Batali

#10. We should clap or something." Curran said. "She's trying so hard.

Ilona Andrews

#11. We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

Karsten Harries

#12. Falling asleep in your arms again reminded me that I was only half a person in your absence. You make me whole.

Sylvain Reynard

#13. Failure is good, failure is necessary, failure stimulates a desire for success.

Asa Don Brown