Pete Fountain I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. – Pete Fountain Assets Quotes Clarinet Quotes Ear Quotes Improvising Quotes Music Quotes Play Quotes Reading Quotes If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don’t think my career would have taken off. I wouldn’t have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. You know, it’s funny… when you’re making money, people don’t think you’re playing jazz. Now when you’re not making money, people think that you’re a good jazz musician.
Peter Gabriel The American record company Geffen got so fed up with me that they said they weren’t going to release my fourth record unless I gave it some title. So it was called ‘Security’ in America, and it had no title everywhere else in the world. – Peter Gabriel
Jonathan Zittrain The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated. – Jonathan Zittrain
Andrew Denton Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it’s okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it’s okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals. – Andrew Denton
Phil Klay A lot of the great pieces of journalism from Iraq showed how important command influence was in violent, aggressive environments, where Marines and soldiers had a constrained set of choices to make in sudden moments. – Phil Klay
Ashleigh BartyFuture There’s no need to look too far into the future or the past. Enjoy the moment. – Ashleigh Barty
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