"Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change."

-- Chuck Israels

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“The act of the being in the band has very little in common with writing songs. The songs come out of it, and the band is necessary for the songs to emerge, but the band doesn't exist just so the songs can emerge.”
“I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.”
“Gay is when two girls get together, dance and have fun.”

Source : Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.19, Bywater Books
“If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.”
“I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.”
“People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.”
“I also remember that Snoop Dogg visited the set in New York, with a joint in his mouth that looked like a cigar. There's your anger management. I thought, "Isn't he going to get arrested?" It was like he lived on another planet. God bless him, he was very nice. Who wouldn't be nice when you're that stoned?”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Helen Hart is the only person I know with an autographed copy of the Bible.”

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