"The only thing you really have to practice is your ability. And this is something I do all the time. I try to teach my hand to do what I'm hearing in my head at any given second. I don't sit around and practice scales. I sit around and just try to make sure my hands are following what's coming to me."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Jon Brion

#Trying Quotes #Teach Quotes #Ability Quotes

“When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to evoke more than anything. I remember hearing all the parts of the songs in my mind when I was walking around over the lava fields.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature.”
“My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.”
“If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.”
“In an unhealthy way, I found a lot of validity in having always been a very good athlete, a very good baseball player, and I've since grown out of that place into a different perspective and learned how to live differently, thankfully, where baseball is certainly something that's very important to me. It's not who I am, though. It's just what I do.”

Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.
“Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.”

Source : Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?”
“No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.”

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