Leo Kottke Quotes
Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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It was different when I was young, aged 20, playing the French Open. I didn't have so much experience. I just played tennis because I loved the game.
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We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.
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The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
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It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.
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Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
