Andrew Hill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.
-- Andrew Hill

#Music #Crazy #Eccentric
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.
-- Andrew Hill

#Music #Expression #Sensual
I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing.
-- Andrew Hill

#Music #Writing #Piano
These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless and they can't be learned; they can only be felt.
-- Andrew Hill

#Music #People #Magic
Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.
-- Andrew Hill

#Thinking #Sight #Oil
A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.
-- Andrew Hill

#Worry #Leader #Great Leader
It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.
-- Andrew Hill

#Player #Differences #Energy

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
I laughed out loud and shook my head, "You're crazy!" He nodded, "About you.
You tempt me.I can't be tempted.I'm not made to be tempted,but you,Pagan Moore,you tempt me.From the moment i came for you i was drawn in.Everything about you.."One of his hands left my waist and moved up to gently caress my arm."You make me crazy with need.With want.I didn't understand it at first.But now i know.It's your soul calling to me.Souls mean nothing to me.They aren't supposed to.But yours has become my obsession.
When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
I have always idolized eccentric people.

Andrew Hill famous quotes

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