Bill Bruford Quotes
Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
Quotes to Explore
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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 consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.
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You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.
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I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.
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Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
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I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.
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Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.
