Lester Bowie Quotes

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Lester Bowie

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• I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Thought
  • Design

• I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Plan

• It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Things
  • Look
  • Depends

• A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Money
  • Business
  • Today

• Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Doing

• In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Tax
  • Income
  • Income Tax

• The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Up
  • Music
  • Technology

• I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

  

  Chevy Chase

• Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • School
  • High
  • Eyes

• I've been auditioning since I'm nine years old. Honestly, most of my friends I've met in audition rooms because you're always auditioning.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • Friends

• I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'

  

  Don Lemon
  • Life
  • Sorry

• You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Time
  • Period

• Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

  

  Chris Tucker

• We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • World
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Fear

• Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Time
  • Book
  • Study

• 'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Music
  • Band
  • Jazz

• I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned from all of their mistakes. I can't go into detail, but while I was growing up, I always tried to make it a goal to relieve some of the stress my mother went through.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Up
  • Different
  • Mother

• Another way of working is setting deliberate constraints that aren't musical ones - like saying, "Well, this piece is going to be three minutes and nineteen seconds long and it's going to have changes here, here and here, and there's going to be a convolution of events here, and there's going to be a very fast rhythm here with a very slow moving part over the top of it." Those are the sort of visual ideas that I can draw out on graph paper. I've done a lot of film music this way.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Long
  • Musical
  • Deliberate

• We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

  

  Lester Bowie
  • Music
  • Society
  • Importance