Woody Shaw Quotes
I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.
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…if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.
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All that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.
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I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
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'Teenage Dream' was the most difficult song I've ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn't get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right.
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Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.
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Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.
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I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away - the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it.
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Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.
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I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible.
