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.
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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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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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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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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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'Summon up a supper,' he said. 'Oh, I could. On golden plates, if you like. But that’s illusion, and when you eat illusions you end up hungrier than before.'
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
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Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.
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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.
