Steve Swallow Quotes
Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.
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Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
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Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.
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I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.
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The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs.
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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The belly has no ears.
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A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.
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The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.
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A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
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I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
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I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.
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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
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Use words that soak up life.
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I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock.
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I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.
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There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.
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I would anticipate there will be some additional allocations.
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Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.
