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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While I think it's very important that Marco Rubio and Senator Ted Cruz have contributed as senators... there's no doubt in my mind that being a governor is far, far better preparation for the ultimate responsibility as president of the United States.
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Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.
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They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
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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.
