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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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
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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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Straight up. You can't mess with Jay when it's time to come play.
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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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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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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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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?
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Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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Economic history matters. Students of economics should read Charles MacKay and Charles Kindleberger, and should study the history of the Wall Street Crash as well as the theory and the mathematics required to formalize it.
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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.
