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John Abercrombie Quotes

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

John Abercrombie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 16, 1944 - August 22, 2017

Topics

Music You Listen Out Consciousness

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

Best Writing You Deepest Come Most

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

Myself Plan Never Being Saw

We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.

Stand Quit Need Allies Our

I don't think I win most interviews. For instance, with Fidel Castro, I only spoke with him one minute and three seconds. But I think he won because I couldn't get anything from him. With the former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, it happened exactly the same thing.

Win Think Three President Anything

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me.

Me Manager Out Contract Got English

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Dorothy Kilgallen

Win Think Important Sometimes More

The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that's unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Man Angry Losing Black You Lose

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Together Politics Unity Pride Long

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

Brigitte Bardot

I Am Misunderstood Idiots Correct Am

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

History Beginning End Connections

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

Words Thinking Walking Someone You

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Pope John Paul II

Mother Home Moment Kiss Hands Duty

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