"You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something."

-- Terry Bozzio

#Stupid Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.”
“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.”
“[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together easily nor does it always stay together easily. It's known very good times and very bad ones. It has held together, often out of shared memories and hopes, sometimes out of the lure of my sisters' cooking, and sometimes out of sheer stubbornness. And like the world itself, our family is renewed by each baby.”
“sharing is the secret of civilization.”
“I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.”
“The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.”

Source : Carolyn Lanchner, Fernand Léger, Jodi Hauptman, Matthew Affron (1998). “Fernand Léger: [Exposición] The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 15-May 12, 1998”, p.124, The Museum of Modern Art
“The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.”
“On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.”

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