Mary Halvorson Quotes
I don't enjoy jazz guitar in general. I don't enjoy listening to a lot of it. I don't enjoy the tone. In general I've found its role in jazz to be kind of difficult.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
-
I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
-
The world is too violent right now.
-
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
-
The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
-
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.
-
Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
-
Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
-
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
-
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
-
Never put a sock in a toaster.
-
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
-
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
-
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
-
I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
-
I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country.
-
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.
-
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
-
I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
-
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.
-
I don't enjoy jazz guitar in general. I don't enjoy listening to a lot of it. I don't enjoy the tone. In general I've found its role in jazz to be kind of difficult.
