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Bill Frisell Quotes

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

Bill Frisell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 18, 1951

Topics

Music Hate People Problem You Say

My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Life Father Day Regret Face Deep

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

Joe Thomas

Yourself You Drama Seriously Take

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

Anatoly Chubais

Support Internet Globalization Way

I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.

John J. McLaughlin

Opinion Questions Data Want Over

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

Stephen Harper

War Finding Destruction Weapon Mass

I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.

Spencer Grammer

School People High School Remember

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.

Stephen Stills

Better Trying Blues Kind Group Than

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

Martin Sheen

You House White Living Actor Way

I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any money on me.

Mickey Rooney

Coffee Money Me Smoke Starbucks Any

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

Michel Gondry

Home Garden Grandfather Over Lived

You date people to practice and to learn and to grow. But for me, everything was always a hang-up, or there was something there that I felt was a bit off.

Michael Landes

Practice People Me Grow Learn You

In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.

Michael Mandelbaum

Truth Simple American Oil Reason