"Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't know that I was going to make a record based on that time and those improvisations. But as soon as I started playing music down there, I realised that it was going to be something significant for me."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Jherek Bischoff

#Writing Quotes #Significant Quotes #Improvisation Quotes

“For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.”
“I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.”
“Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.”
“Your inner strength is your outer foundation”
“There's a very secret plan. And it's a plan that nobody's going to tell you, 'Well, we want to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A. because we want X, Y, and Z.' They'll never ever say that. But I'm kind of surprised they went after Christmas because it's such an emotional issue.”
“We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.”
“Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.”
“Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.”

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