Gary Bartz Quotes
I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.
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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
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Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.
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I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.
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In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.
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Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?
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I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.
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I want to become the president of all the people of France - the president of the patriots in the face of the threat from the nationalists.
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It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.
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There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
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Daring to dream what is deepest in our collective longings is what makes us most human and fully alive.
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I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.
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You cannot borrow and spend your way into prosperity. It does not work.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.
