Ed Simons Quotes
When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.
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I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.
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I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.
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Arizonans want us to come together, put aside politics, and solve problems. You want us to do our jobs in way that reflects the best of our state. You want us to stop and listen - something that doesn't always come naturally to people in politics.
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There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
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Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
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Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
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We needed to make a few more plays. I think field position was an issue and not being able to get enough plays when we needed to.
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The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.
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I didn't really understand the concept of feminism until the media started to talk about it surrounding my name.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
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It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
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Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.
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I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
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To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).
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I believe in a zone of privacy.
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When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.
