Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
-
You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
-
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
-
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
-
I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
-
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
-
I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
-
I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
-
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
-
If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
-
I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
-
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
-
I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
-
When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
-
I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
-
My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
-
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
-
Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
-
If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.
-
Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.
-
I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.
-
Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.
-
Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.
