Jools Holland Quotes
I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
Quotes to Explore
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
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My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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I found that music was my favorite art form.
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I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.
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I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
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I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
