Gil Evans famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.
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Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have.
-- Gil Evans
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I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
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I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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