"Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on â€œPotato Holeâ€â€¦Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.â€™s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockersâ€™ multiple-guitar attack, with distortion and feedback, gives the music teeth."

-- Jon Pareles

#Guitar Quotes #Giving Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.”
“Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.”
“All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.”
“I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.”
“[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.”
“I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist”
“This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”
“Immortality... Is that a super power?”

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