David Torn famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets from the body of your music. Remember: the original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.
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I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.
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I was in bands as a singer-guitarist-songwriter until 1980-81. So, there's a bunch of stuff. A lot of the stuff is hard to come by-stuff by the Special Interest Group and the Zobo Funn Band. The Zobo Funn Band was a big Northeast cult band. We had about a billion skirmishes with the big rock industry.
-- David Torn
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
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I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
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I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
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With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
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The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
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