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.
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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.
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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.
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Women just love to shop.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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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.
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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
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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.
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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.
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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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.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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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.
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion.
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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.
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Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.
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I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
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I think making music is removing the barriers from your inside and allowing that to come through your horn to the outside. I think I’m getting better and better at focusing on what it is I’m trying to convey when I’m playing. I think my style, playing-wise, is a little more direct, more identifiable, more communicative, more consistently me and less derivative.
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Why does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn't hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.
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You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
