I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush
It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.
It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.
But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.
I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.
Marcus Buckingham has a keen sense of what it takes to excel, and he backs his insights with an impressive body of in-depth interviews and research. This is an important book for anybody who aspires to effective leadership, managing, or any kind of enduring individual achievement.
God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.