Stephen Bruner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or break a car window. You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch but the best crutch I could have.
-- Stephen Bruner

#Car #Brain #Hammers
When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.
-- Stephen Bruner

#Play #Musician #Ears
I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!
-- Stephen Bruner

#Teeth #Swallowing #Bass
I think anytime you set out to start doing something, it's always a difficult thing. It's a theory of a blank sheet of paper, for an artist; It's a challenge to put yourself in that position in life, and even in your mind, to put the two together. But you have to, and so that's what you do. I tend to look at it as less than a problem than a process.
-- Stephen Bruner

#Artist #Thinking #Challenges
I was pretty spoiled growing up, creatively and artistically; we were exposed to a lot of different things. I remember watching my brother's friends struggle to get to the level he was at musically and wondering why they were having such a hard time.
-- Stephen Bruner

#Brother #Growing Up #Struggle
As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.
-- Stephen Bruner

#Skills #Use #Bass
Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.
-- Stephen Bruner

#Growing Up #Impact #Playing Jazz
I couldn't tell how many times I've been to Japan off the top of my head, I just have a few standout moments that were very defining and inspirational at different parts of my life. As far as moving there, I don't know. That's a tall order there. I feel there's people that go so far as to do that, and good for them, but I just can't. For me it's not a misplaced passion or a weird infatuation - it's more like I've just had a good chance to realize how immensely their art has affected our American culture, and I don't take it for granted. I've got a very big appreciation.
-- Stephen Bruner

#Appreciation #Art #Moving
Japoneese people take themselves very serious and you can see it by everything they do - it's like a different part of the scale or spectrum in being a human, and it's something we're not used to seeing in America. And then when you see it, you do have the moments of infatuation; you get caught up in it, but there's so much more to it.
-- Stephen Bruner

#People #Different #Serious
I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with the service industry in America - you can't make up for that. Once you get a chance to travel a lot, you start to realize when that waitress comes back and asks you if you want some more to drink, that's an important moment. Nobody else does that!
-- Stephen Bruner

#Important #Culture #Chance

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