Bill Frisell Quotes

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

Bill Frisell

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• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Day

• I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Great
  • Pride

• I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • World
  • Myself
  • Problems

• I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Person
  • Circumstances

• I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Art
  • Friends

• Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • People
  • Mind
  • Best

• Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • God
  • Friend

• You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong…

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • May
  • Bitter

• Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.

  

  Edward Young

• Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Asshole

• Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Good
  • Bad

• Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Long

• There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

  

  Frederick M. Vinson

• Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

  

  James Agee
  • People
  • Picture

• I wrestle in a big way with August Wilson's work in that I at times admire it and at times feel infuriated by it, which is weirdly more influential than loving someone entirely.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Work
  • August

• If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Up

• Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on. .... It is almost impossible to imagine a talker who sticks to the facts. Carried away by the sound of his own voice and the applause from the groundlings, he makes inevitably the jump from logic to mere rhetoric.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Jump
  • Talking

• James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where hes going to build. Karl wasnt at home. He was out there somewhere in the woods riding on some Caterpillar or some kind of tractor. But I figured wed at least knock on the door to see if he was there. His wife answered the door. So we got to meet Kay before Karl.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Wife

• Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • God
  • Purpose

• We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Find
  • Need
  • Empower

• The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

  

  Ravi Subramanian
  • Times
  • Seven
  • Eight

• Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

  

  Bill Frisell