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Percussionist Inspirational Quotes (704)

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I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.
Trilok Gurtu
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People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.
Joseph Jarman
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Where does Terry live? Somewhere deep inside. So I just let that come out and try to make something out of it without worrying about techniques or rules or any of that stuff. Just do it, you know. As long as it doesn't burn or get deleted, you know, then somebody will find it someday and I will have left something that I think is beautiful.
Terry Bozzio
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When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.
Sam Shepard
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The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.
Evelyn Glennie
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It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.
Richard P. Feynman
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I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
Sam Shepard
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In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.
Terry Bozzio
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Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.
Lenny Kravitz
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Richard P. Feynman
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To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.
Sheila E.
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I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
Lenny Kravitz
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But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.
Chico Hamilton
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This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
Richard P. Feynman
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Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.
Richard P. Feynman
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Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.
Richard P. Feynman
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The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.
Hamid Drake
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I'm just looking for interesting roles and giving acting the respect it deserves.
Lenny Kravitz
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You're always first when no one's on your side.
Brandon Boyd
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The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.
Richard P. Feynman
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I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.
Jimmy Carl Black
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What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
Roscoe Mitchell
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I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.
Jimmy Carl Black
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I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.
Terry Bozzio
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