Geoff Zanelli Quotes
In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
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God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
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In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
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Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest
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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
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The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.
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Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help.
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I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.
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Who I really am keeps surprising me.
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Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.
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I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence.
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Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
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Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
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You need 10,000 hours to figure out how to be good at something and I agree with that to a certain extent. It's like everything you do to lead up to a great recording or great performance is everything you've done in the past and you can't just, it's rare that someone wakes up in a void and goes and wakes up and makes the most brilliant recording or performance.
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What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.
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When we first started recording, it was before rock, so people thought we were hillbilly hicks. That was something we had to deal with; the girls didn't think we were cool, although they did a few years later. We had ducktails and wore peg-leg pants. We looked like rock n' rollers.
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In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.
