Evan Parker Quotes
When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
Evan Parker
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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
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
Ian Anderson
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
Eddie Murphy
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
Hanya Yanagihara
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
Kailash Kher
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The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
Orlando Bloom
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
Larry Page
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I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
Rachel Nichols
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A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.
Kathleen Sebelius
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My singing style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.
Judy Garland
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
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When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.
Meghan Trainor
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I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.
Marcus Samuelsson
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When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.
Evan Parker
