I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.
If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.
Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.
Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.
Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.
The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.
I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.
I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.
