#cian

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#always #away #back #bass #been

Logic is in the eye of the logician. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#logic #logician

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#cut #down #hypocrite #kind #make

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#every #mouth #open #politician #question

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#actor #anything #begin #even #i

I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#face #i #i think #most #politicians

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#discover #i #interested #musicians #new

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#composing #different #even #every #groups

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#discovered #encounter #etc #felt #first

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#always #far #greater #i #jazz