Tommy Chong (Thomas B. Kin Chong) Quotes

I've always been into improvisation.

Tommy Chong

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• Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done fast?

  

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• A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

  

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• Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.

  

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• I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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• Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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• Think more design less.

  

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• Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

  

  Terence McKenna
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• It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
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• One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

  

  Romany Malco
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• When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.

  

  Elliott Sharp
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  • Improvisation

• By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.

  

  Isabelle Huppert
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  • Lines
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• I've always been into improvisation.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Improvisation