Peter Erskine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.
-- Peter Erskine

#Attention #World #Pay
The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.
-- Peter Erskine

#Player #Credit #Cymbals
There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.
-- Peter Erskine

#Technology #Use #Launching
When it comes to certain kind of rhythm things, particularly like shaker or tambourine tracks. I like the way I can really lock up with my own Hi Hat or Ride Cymbal beat. So a lot of times in recording I'll be asked -- or even volunteer -- to put a shaker or tambourine track on. Just to give it something extra. And it always works great. I hate it when I'm in the studio and I don't have any shakers or tambourines with me. I've been on a few dates when we didn't have anything and tried to improvise shakers out of some uncooked rice in soda cans. It sounded horrible.
-- Peter Erskine

#Hate #Volunteer #Track
We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!
-- Peter Erskine

#Country #Grateful #School

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.
Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

Peter Erskine famous quotes

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