Subtle Nuance Quotes

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.