Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

Tommy Bolin

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• Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Kitchen
  • Chocolate

• And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Soul
  • Amazing
  • Intelligent

• Women just love to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Women
  • Love
  • Shop

• No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Christian
  • Civilization

• Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Time
  • Work
  • Passionate

• I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Money
  • Group
  • Motives

• My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Done
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • College
  • Proud

• Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Different
  • Know
  • Feel

• I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Discover
  • Surprised
  • Boston

• I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Today

• The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Best

• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painter
  • Continue
  • Tools

• I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Style
  • Same

• The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Anxiety
  • Cure
  • Knees

• When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Need

• As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

  

  Don McLean
  • Soul
  • Evil
  • Habit

• Every time I got the ball I tried to make something happen.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Ball
  • Tried

• I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.

  

  Roz Chast
  • House
  • Hands
  • Parent

• My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Painting
  • Summer
  • Grandmother

• The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Poverty
  • Direct
  • Timr

• We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Community
  • Values
  • Security

• You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Direct
  • Piano
  • Fingers