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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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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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
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What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.
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The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
