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
  • Know
  • Funny
  • 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

• 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.

  

  Douglas Bader
  • Road
  • Sea
  • Holiday

• I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.

  

  Jane Krakowski
  • Hope

• If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • You
  • Find
  • Compliment

• But what about the sufferings of the innocent? Worst of all is the hell that exists in the special psychiatric clinics in Dnieperopetrovsk, Sytshevk, Blagoveshensk, Kazan, Chernakovsk, Oriol, Leningrad, Tashkent, … .

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Innocent

• What is an individual? Just a bit of life shot off from the one Life in the universe-just a bit of love and truth dropped on this globe, just as the globe itself was once a bit of light and heat dropped from the sun.

  

  Clarence W. Barron
  • Individual
  • Globe

• 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