Ahmad Jamal Quotes
I listen to my own music now because I'm busy writing now--I started hearing some things--I'm writing all the time. When you write you have to listen. Writing music is very difficult. At a certain level the work begins to dictate itself. I write the piano score first, then I'll set down a bass line. Sometimes I'll give the bass the bottom and I'll play subordinate tones. I use very close harmonies. I like strong rhythmic ideas, too.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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Im very nurturing.
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I love to travel to hear different kinds of music.
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Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.
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I listen to my own music now because I'm busy writing now--I started hearing some things--I'm writing all the time. When you write you have to listen. Writing music is very difficult. At a certain level the work begins to dictate itself. I write the piano score first, then I'll set down a bass line. Sometimes I'll give the bass the bottom and I'll play subordinate tones. I use very close harmonies. I like strong rhythmic ideas, too.
