Stanley Clarke Quotes

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Stanley Clarke

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I sense that the sea of smart phones lit up at concerts is a temporary phenomenon. The integration of technology, sharing, and social into our physical world, on the other hand, well, that ain't going away.

John Battelle

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The best word to describe my father? Thoughtful. There was a tender quality to Dad that his sense of fun could sometimes mask. But, above all, he was sensitive and looked out for those he loved.

Jennifer Grant

FatherBestQualityFunLovedMask

When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.

Jenna Morasca

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You can achieve one thing, but because of that, you have to adapt or lose something else. If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere... For me, that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.

Andrew Haigh

RelationshipPeopleMeThinkEnd

I'm a big sleep guy. I think my schedule sorta starts with sleep and making sure I get enough of it. I'm an eight-plus hours guy. I would love to sleep more. I definitely try to create a routine and not stray from that routine at all, but I will take advantage of having an off-morning. And I really have become a fan of the 20-minute catnap.

Andrew Luck

LoveSleepThinkEnoughRoutineTry

Even my trolls have started taking the trouble to spell their Tweets correctly, which is thoughtful.

Robert Rinder

ThoughtfulTroubleStartedEven

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Stephen Sondheim

MusicWritingBecauseLyricFell

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me up and she had been mentioning, prior to that, this community production of 'Godspell', a couple towns over. I was reluctant, at first, and she bribed me with some great dinner that was in that town, neighboring the theater.

Skylar Astin

CommunityGreatSchoolMomDinner

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

Trevor Paglen

ReligionIdeasAlwaysSymbolsRole

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Rumi

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It's so easy to become caught up by, 'I've got to do this,' or, 'I've got to do that,' and most of the times, the best stuff comes from when you are not trying to do anything and when you let go.

Johnny Simmons

BestTryingEasyYouGoBecome

'Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.

Johnny Vegas

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