John Abercrombie Quotes

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

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• I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
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  • Listening

• I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
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  • Night

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
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• I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Long
  • Live

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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  • May

• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  

  Iggy Azalea
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  • Art
  • Think

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Music
  • Something

• Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
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  • Listening
  • Ocean

• Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every girl's dream to play Maria, in a way, I think. That music!

  

  Laura Osnes
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  • Music
  • Dream

• Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Invisible
  • Smell

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
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  • Together
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• I really believe in the power of music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

  

  M.I.A.
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  • Rap
  • Goddess

• If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.

  

  Randall Terry
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• I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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  • Finding
  • Died

• As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
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  • Woman

• I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child. I don't follow the rules. That's kind of how I do everything. Through my music, I've found a place in the world where I'm accepted, so I'm happy.

  

  Neon Hitch
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  • Music

• We were broadly criticized by some, especially in the Senate, ... We did not back up. We did not wave the white flag. We did not retreat. ... I think this is a good bill.

  

  Dennis Hastert
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  • Good
  • Senate

• Fashion is anything which is you and reflects your personality, and if you are comfortable with what you wearing, you'll look trendy and fashionable for sure.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Fashion
  • Personality
  • Look

• Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Political
  • Decision

• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Up
  • Night
  • Sound

• You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

  

  John Abercrombie
  • Music
  • Trying