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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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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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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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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No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
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Every night I play as if my life depends on it.
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All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.
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Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.
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I am proud of being a Somali-American Muslim, and my wardrobe has been an important part of my religious and cultural upbringing.
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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
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Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.
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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.
