A Quote by Tori Amos

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

Tori Amos

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Tori Amos
American - Musician
Born: August 22, 1963

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

Richard Holbrooke

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

Richard Dawkins

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

John Lennon

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

Jonathan Tropper

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

Robert Wilson

I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it.

John Lanchester

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

Joshua Bell

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Rachel Cohn

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

Laurence Equilbey

I don't feel that all the great songs have been written. I do feel that where we are now, certainly with rock & roll music, is that so much of it is variations on themes. But I think that it's one's particular creativity and individuality that comes out within that variation on a particular theme that makes a song great.

Ben Gibbard

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

Neil Gaiman

I think the only thing that we know how to do is look at our characters and ask what is the character doing right now and what do we need to do, and tell it from that place. If we really make it character driven and theme driven, I think we're going to offer up something new for the audience.

Dylan Clark

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Fernand Point

Also with that money comes the idea, "Let your imagination run wild." Which I think is a very dangerous thing. I think it's dangerous because you can get into pretty wacky territory. There are things that are too crazy.

Taika Waititi

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