Tartini Sonata Quotes & Sayings

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth. — Vita Sackville-West

The tritone - an augmented fourth (or, in hazz parlance, a flatted fifth) - is a difficult interval to sing and has often been regarded as having an ugly, uncanny, or even diabolical quality. Its use was forbidden in early ecclesiastical music, and early theorists called it diabolus in musica ("the devil in music"). But Tartini used it, for this very reason, in his Devil's Trill Sonata for violin.
Though the raw tritone sounds so harsh, it is easily filled out with another tritone to form a diminished seventh. And this, the Oxford Companion to Music notes, "has a luscious effect ... The chord is indeed the most Protean in all harmony. In England the nickname has been given it of 'The Clapham Junction of Harmony' - from a railway station in London where so many lines join that once arrived there one can take a train for almost anywhere else. — Oliver Sacks

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.' — Alexandre Aja

think of that? Maybe I want to — Elle Kennedy

The most emotionally connected I've ever been to a character is Natsuki in 'Summer Wars.' — Brina Palencia

If you are lying in bed now lamenting life, remember this: If I hadn't been harassed at work by people who lacked professionalism, given bad news by a doctor that saved my life, gone nearly broke, lost girlfriends for stupid reasons, had terrible bosses, made mistakes, and been lonely I never would have started my company or be grateful for every moment in the present. I used all of the above as fuel for my fire. Go to bed tonight knowing that its the tough times that prepare us for the best times. And the tough times teach us to stay up later, get up earlier, and surround ourselves with awesome people! — Robert J. Braathe

Kitsch is deceptive. It has many different levels, and some of them are high enough to be dangerous to the naive seeker of true light. — Clement Greenberg