Bill Frisell Quotes
I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is too violent right now.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
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The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
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I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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Everybody struggles with get tiring as a musician having to play the same songs over and over again on one level or another. That is why you're cast to write the best songs you can. It keeps it going for you. My old man used to tell me be careful what you write you might have to play it for the rest of your life. That is always a challenge and the best way to remedy it is to write.
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I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.
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I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
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I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
