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.
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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?'
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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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.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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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.
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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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.
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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.
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Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.
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Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
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Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.
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Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
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Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.
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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.
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Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.
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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.
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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.
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The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
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People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.
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A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
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The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.
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I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me.
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Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were
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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.
