Lester Bowie Quotes
It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Europe can be saved.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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No man fails who does his best.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.
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I grew up with reggae music.
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Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
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I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
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Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.
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I like to be a part of shows that are trying to make waves and changes.
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I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.
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The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.
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It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.
