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

• Someone has to stand up for wimps.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Someone

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• 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

• My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Job
  • Tomorrow
  • Performance

• 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

• Oh, no single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • World
  • Single
  • Rest

• 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

• It doesn't matter that it can't last, that we don't find it more often. To know that there is such perfection, that there has been such perfection - it is worth living for. It exists. It has been - it is. One can contemplate it and feel complete peace.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Peace

• 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

• I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Technology

• I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.

  

  Pia Toscano

• After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'

  

  Marsha Norman
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Night

• People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• 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