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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It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
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And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. - Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
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I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
