Isaac Hayes

Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

American Musician

Sinead Burke

Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled lives are multi-faceted - brimming with personality, pride, ambition, love, empathy, and wit.

Designer

Damien Rice

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

Irish Musician

Jonathan Levine

The way 'Coming Home' uses music in general is incredible, but the final song that really kind of crescendos all of the emotion that the whole movie has kind of been building to is this song called 'Once I Was' by Tim Buckley.

American Director

Anders Holm

Teenage Wildlife' is just epic. It's, like, five or six minutes long, and it kind of crescendos and builds into this insane vocal of Bowie wailing. I think I would pay $5,000 dollars to see footage of that recording session.

American Writer

Frank Lowy

I have... been disturbed by the negative tone of the debate over immigration... there is a rising crescendo of opinion from columnists and politicians saying we should reduce our immigration intake.

Australian Businessman

Megyn Kelly

What people don't realize about Donald Trump - and I don't even know if Donald Trump realizes it - is that every tweet he unleashes against you... creates such a crescendo of anger.

American Journalist

Gene Cernan

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

American Astronaut

Jonathan Sacks

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

British Clergyman

James Bay

I like it when things crescendo to a huge moment like 'Hold Back the River.

British Musician

In music, 'crescendo' indicates a section should gradually get louder, often creating excitement.

Music Dynamics

A 'crescendo' is not sudden; it emphasizes a slow build-up in music or situations.

Not Abrupt

The climax of a crescendo is often where the music or action reaches its peak.

Culminating Point

'Crescendo' is used metaphorically to describe building events or emotions.

Beyond Music

It suggests a situation is gaining momentum and heading towards a pivotal moment.

Growing Momentum

In narrative, 'crescendo' often marks a buildup of emotions or suspense.

Emotional Intensity

As a verb, 'crescendoing' is a technique musicians use to raise the music’s intensity.

Music Technique

'Crescendo' as a verb illustrates the action of making something more intense or louder.

Active Increase

When used as a verb, it depicts a subtle and gradual change, not a swift alteration.

Subtle Change

 figure of fun there's no trust anymore only ridicule and I remember at the beginning of my career again and again these dismal outings with orchestras I would be going completely insane on the podium trying to engender a small-scale crescendo really just a little upsurge in volume bugger me they wouldn't give it to me I spent a lot of time in those

Trusting the ensemble -...

 is that there's an impending cut-out-the-middle-man disintermediation, that's going to be happening in the publishing industry. And it's going to reach a crescendo over the next few years, and I think that it's for our benefit, really, and for the world's benefit. OK, so what are the enablers?

Richard Baraniuk on...

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Advocating for gender...

 Rather, I am asking that we make space -- physical, psychic room, to allow life to play itself all the way out -- so that rather than just getting out of the way, aging and dying can become a process of crescendo through to the end.

What really matters at...

 asking we make space physical psychic room to allow life to play itself all the way out so that rather than just getting out of the way aging and dying can become a process of crescendo through to the end

The Year in Ideas: TED...

 Racism wants your apathy. Make a commitment now to use your voice and your privilege and your power to fight for racial justice always, and to join the crescendo of voices calling for change.

Racism thrives on...

 for the New York Times documentaries, and she spoke from every platform she could. And her voice was the most powerful voice. It spread like a crescendo all around the world.

My Daughter, Malala PIPE...

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What should electric...

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