Lester Bowie Quotes
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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I have rules for everything.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
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All scientists who've looked at it know we have to phase away from burning fossil fuels. That means we've got to put a lot of effort into alternate energy technologies, but we're still subsidizing fossil fuels and not subsidizing most of the alternatives. It's not going to be an easy transition.
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I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
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We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.
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I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.
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The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
