"I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge."

-- Bill Frisell

#Listening Quotes #Musician Quotes #Sound Quotes

“These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality.”
“Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.”
“I was taken by William Burroughsâ€™ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.”
“The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'”
“No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.”
“Everybody was telling me to sit my ***** down. Everybody was telling me to get a real job. Everybody was asking me, "What are you doing? You're ruining your life. You're embarrassing your family." That's all I got. So you can't listen to that. You have to listen to yourself.”
“There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.”
“Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.”

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