Bill Frisell Quotes
I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.
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I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I'm selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff... Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.
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Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.
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What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
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For years, the defenders of television have argued that the networks are only giving the people what they want. That might be true. But so is the Medellin cartel.
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I have had only two men in four years while he appears every week on the newspapers with another woman.
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My daughter's got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she's running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.
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There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.
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I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.
