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Percussionist Inspirational Quotes (704)

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A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
Evelyn Glennie
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I always liked to make something creative.
Terry Bozzio
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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.
Richard P. Feynman
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I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.
Roscoe Mitchell
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People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know the things we don't know.
Richard P. Feynman
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Computer science is not as old as physics it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!
Richard P. Feynman
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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
Richard P. Feynman
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Richard P. Feynman
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Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative.
Richard P. Feynman
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I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.
Lenny Kravitz
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
Richard P. Feynman
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
Richard P. Feynman
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Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.
Lenny Kravitz
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If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.
Richard P. Feynman
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I feel like my best work is in front of me. I'm in the studio now, and I'm having an amazing time making this new album. It's something I can't help.
Lenny Kravitz
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You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.
Jeff Rich
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It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.
Richard P. Feynman
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All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?
Sam Shepard
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The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.
Richard P. Feynman
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To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.
Arturo Sandoval
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
Brandon Boyd
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The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
Richard P. Feynman
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There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.
Richard P. Feynman
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Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.
Richard P. Feynman
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