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Les Claypool Quotes

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 29, 1963

Topics

Play Nobody Band Because Bass

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

Life Communism Become More Need Own

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

Poetry Talking You Powerful Go Way

To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

Yourself World Story Think You Open

I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. 'How are those new cars?' I asked. 'They're fine,' he said. I thought he'd offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn't. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn't buy the car.

Car Me Drive Thought Weekend New

Well it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament.

Me Say Matter Well Cannot He

A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.

Work History Memory Television Kind

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

Goals Stay Score Hit Runs

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Louis Armstrong

Music Song Horse Never Sing Folk

We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Family Girl Daughter Slavery Husband

Once a month, try something you don't think you'd be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

Good Happy Think You Find Try

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.

Guitar You New Sound Turn Up

As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't.

Want Understand Right Everything Out

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