"I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets."

-- Gary Burton

#Player Quotes #Boston Quotes #East Quotes

“It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.”
“His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.”
“It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.”
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
“Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).”
“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.”
“She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door”

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