"Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ."

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Source : "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in the Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

Al Kooper

#Opportunity Quotes #Player Quotes #Ambitious Quotes

“When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.”
“The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.”
“You know, I'm not saying, 'Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.' I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, 'Can I not say no to it for whatever reason?'”
“I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.”

Source : "‘Snow White And The Huntsman’ Director Rupert Sanders On Kristen Stewart And His ‘Mirror Mirror’ Fears" by Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.
“Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.”
“If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja”
“I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.”
“Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.”

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