Gary Burton Quotes
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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Don't limit your audience.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe.
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He was a skater boy. She said: 'see you later, boy'. He wasn't good enough for her. Now, he's a superstar. Slamming on his guitar, to show pretty face what he's worth.
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When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
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I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.
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I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
