"My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard."

-- Bill Crow

#Song Quotes #Morning Quotes #Reading Quotes

“I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.”
“The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.”
“I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.”
“It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.”
“Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.”
“Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit”
“My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.”
“A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold.”

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