Dewey Redman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In my world, the first thing I reach for is the sound. Technique is Ok, but if you got the technique and I got a good sound, I'll beat you every time. You can play a thousand notes and I can play one note and wipe you out. What I reach for is ... a sound.
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The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.
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I like to think of myself as an original. I have my own sound. That's not easy to come by, I worked on it for many years. But I like to think that I sound like Dewey Redman
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What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.
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Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.
-- Dewey Redman
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I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
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I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
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Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
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It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
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The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
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I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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When I fart my ***** makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.
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