There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.
There are little details in everything you do, and if you get away from any one of the little details, you're not teaching the thing as a whole. For it is little things which, together, make the whole. This, I think, is extremely important.
Big doors swing on little hinges.
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.
Without stones there is no arch.
And there's always one special element. In 'There Goes My Baby,' it's the out-of-tune timpani. 'Stand by Me,' it's the bass pattern. Of course, all the elements come together to make a great record. But there's always one standout.
If you take care of the music first, and then add elements of a good show, then it makes for a good combination.
You can never really get away from the fundamentals of anything that you're doing.
The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.
It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
