Quotes About Curation

There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.

I love the concept of albums, and I love owning albums.

Digg is like your newspaper, but rather than a handful of editors determining what's on the front page, the masses do.

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

He picked something out of everything he read.

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.

When you open up Pinterest, you should feel like you've walked into a building full of stuff that only you are interested in. Everything should feel handpicked for you.

Brands are about editing.

A music service needs to be more than a bunch of songs and a few playlists.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.

If you're posting pictures to platforms like Instagram or Twitter, be selective about the one you post. If I'm capturing a sunset, I'll take at least 10 pictures. I'll then filter them using other apps, enhance them. Then, I really pick the best image of perhaps 30.

One afternoon he started to talk about his collection of books. Of 3000 books, he found only 30 worth keeping. We were all ready to take notes, expecting Mies to tell us the titles of those 30 books. Mies, instead, with a big smile on his face told us they were important only to him and we must find our own 30 by ourselves.

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

I wouldn't include a piece in my collection that I wouldn't wear personally.

Everyone's computer, mobile phone or music-listening device should have a folder in my name with 100 songs.

I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.

Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.

I definitely pick and choose what I put out and what I want people to know.

I put together amazing records, whether that's finding the beat or putting the right hook on there, and picking the right artists on the record. That's me being an A&R. And I'm making sure that they give me their best.

Women who have understood fashion and style for so long have always known it's not about having more pieces. It's about having the right pieces and having the pieces that are of a great quality and look like you know what you're doing. You don't have to have a million things on.