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.

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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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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.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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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.
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If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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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.
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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.
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I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
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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.
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What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac.
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Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
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You're measured by championships no matter what.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.
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There DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read them had the power of a long piece, but they were prose, and they had the power of poetry, in that the last line wasn't the end, it was a reverberation, like when you tap on a glass made of crystal, and it goes ping.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Lots of times it really doesn't matter what notes you play, but what notes come before and after a run.