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In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Art Art School Ephemeral How Kids Knew Music Notion Off Painting Performance Really Recording Recording Studio School Stuck Students Studio Suddenly Took Tool Use Were Whereas Who 1960S

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Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Always Becomes Ceases Condition Disappearing Ephemeral Existing Instead Leaves Material Music Once Painting Space Time Traditional

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I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.

~Casey Neistat

Topics: Able Amazingly Awesome Content Ephemeral Frequently Get Make Perfect Pieces Precious Spontaneous

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Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

~Charles Durning

Topics: Acting Anyhow Bring Closet Ephemeral Gone Hang Least Next Night Off One Night Out Stage Throw Wall You

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A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

~Christian Dior

Topics: Architecture Body Designed Dress Enhance Ephemeral Female Piece Proportions

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For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.

~Christopher Poole

Topics: Content Ephemeral Finally Had Idea Just Lack Longest Longest Time Made Me Realized Really Time Took Totally Understood Way While Wrong

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As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

~Clive Barker

Topics: Always Because Better Charm Downs Ephemeral Everything Part Production Say Than Theatre Ups Ups And Downs You

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I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is not ephemeral. But I definitely want to be thought of as an artist first.

~Cornelia Parker

Topics: Anything Artist Because Definitely Ephemeral First Made Make Never Obvious Quite Think Thought Want Wanted Woman Work I Think

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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.

~Daniel Alarcon

Topics: Asked Been Blogs Column Columns Could Die Ephemeral Find Hard Like Most Often Papers Peru Really Stuff Thing Think Way Worst Would Write I Think

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To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

~Daryl Hall

Topics: Days Depth Ephemeral Kinds Lasting Me Music Power Two

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