Bill Bruford Quotes
I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I do or die, but I never cancel out.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.
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It's tough for those celebrity couples. It's really hard. My wife wasn't in the limelight, which made it easier... the key is to keep it happy, light, and fun.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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Committing to a particular goal publicly puts pressure on oneself. It becomes an enormous action-forcing mechanism and often helps you achieve more than you might have had you kept your goals to yourself.
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I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again.
