Derek Bailey Quotes
Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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I'm not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly. But I think it's really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out of the sky with some kind of an end-times theory.
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I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.
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It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this
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Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.
