Bill Bruford Quotes
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
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The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.
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People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
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I'm going to try to unite all Americans.
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Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
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I'm a fan of mindfulness, and if colouring in is a way of reaching mindfulness, then I think it's great. But I'm amazed that anyone has the time to do that. I certainly don't.
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It's like people inviting you to come along to a church service or an amateur orchestra. They're hoping that you'll join. People are recruiters at heart, you know. It makes them feel more comfortable to see the ranks of their particular enthusiasm swelling.
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I'm really loud. I can't sing softly.
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There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
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Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
