Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes

I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.

Tommy Bolin

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• Keyboards

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• It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Men
  • Job
  • True

• When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Women
  • Myself

• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Basic
  • Supplied

• I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Cat
  • Now
  • Got

• The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Career
  • Changed

• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
  • World
  • Feel

• None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Act
  • Constitution

• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Sit

• At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I don't attend costume parties.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Parties
  • Costume
  • Attend

• I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • City
  • President
  • Big City

• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Poverty
  • Worst

• When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that's a big win.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Present
  • Win
  • Stars

• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Today
  • Respect
  • Perfect

• I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Soul

• A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • People
  • Mind
  • Think

• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• Reason is the slave of passion.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Passion
  • Reason
  • Slave

• If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Huge

• I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Money
  • Guitar
  • Musician

• I'm not a household name; I'm just a household name to guitar freaks.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Guitar
  • Household
  • Freaks, , , Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/joe_bonamassa_957672

• I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Playing
  • Guitar
  • Drums

• I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Guitar
  • Half
  • Keyboards