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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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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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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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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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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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.
