Bradford Washburn Quotes
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.
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Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
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Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.
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The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.
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The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.
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Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right."
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When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
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I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.
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Solo homers usually come with no one on base.
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I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”
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Back then, I was really into composing the entire solo, beginning to end. I wanted to have it at least 80 to 90 percent complete before going into the studio. I didn't improvise in the studio. I was young, and I didn't really have the development in my playing or the ability to show up with nothing and then put down 500 ideas. I can do that now because I'm so much more of a musician now.
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Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them
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I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.
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Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
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During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.
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L'alpiniste est un homme qui conduit son corps là où, un jour, ses yeux ont regardé. Et qui revient.
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Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.
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The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results.
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable.
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If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
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I will not attempt to say this better than Buddha, who said, "The practice of making others happy is based upon the clear understanding of life which is Oneness. In deep gratitude, let us realize this Oneness of all life, the heart of which is Compassion.
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I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.
