Bill Frisell Quotes

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I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.
Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players,
but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities.
I like anyone who plays any instrument.
- Bill Frisell

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play
as the very first time I picked up the instrument.
There's always this sound out there that's just a little
bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and
that just sort of keeps me going.
- Bill Frisell

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
- Saint Bartholomew

Today, I Will Spend Time In Silence.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude.
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves,
and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren

Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers

Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

How we spend our days is of course
how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard

Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.
If they would only expend the same
amount of energy loving their fellow men,
the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller

"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln

Most of us spend our lives as if
we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
- Lana Turner

While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard

Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree
and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver.
Then they would really be educated.
- Al McGuire

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement;
improve your attitude toward your family.
- Bo Bennett

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress;
when I get tired of one,
I spend the night with the other.
- Anton Chekhov

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
- Daniel Hannan

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers

Time is the coin of your life.
It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly,
you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now.
But that's a joy.
- Liam Neeson

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat.
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra
three years in the geriatric ward.
- John Mortimer

Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- Thomas Jefferson

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball
and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
- Jim Bouton

I often buy myself presents.
Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
- Celine Dion

You need to eat normally and healthfully,
and you need to exercise.
I'm so passionate about this because I think people
spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
- Courtney Thorne Smith

It is your own life, certainly, to spend as you choose.
- Tanya, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak,
not the right to spend.
- Byron White

The best money advice ever given me was from my father.
When I was a little girl, he told me,
'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
- Dinah Shore

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
- Carter Glass

While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A nation that continues year after year
to spend more money on military defense
than on programs of social uplift
is approaching spiritual doom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so
much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
- Josh Billings

I don't spend much money on clothes;
I never did.
- Lauren Hutton

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley

Do more than is required.
What is the distance between someone who achieves their
goals consistently and those who spend their lives
and careers merely following? The extra mile.
- Gary Ryan Blair

If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars
and get your money's worth.
- George M. Humphrey

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James

We have to spend a lot more time training people to
be good advocates of U.S.
business.
- Lawrence Eagleburger

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
- Keren Ann

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to
spend a little bit of their time either in the community
or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
- Thomas R. Cech

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things
we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
- Alexander Woollcott

My interest is in the future because I am going to
spend the rest of my life there.
- Charles Kettering

Other than the fact that I like a country house,
I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.
- Guy Ritchie

You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person,
and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
- Patricia Velasquez

Although you may spend your life killing,
You will not exhaust all your foes.
But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
- Nagarjuna

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done.
I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it.
It's of no importance once it's finished.
- Paul Simon

A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's
an easier way to keep your job.
- Cynthia Weil

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in
a week in dispensable bread,
how much in alms.
- Robert Grosseteste

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.
- Sara Paretsky

I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come
back from work it is the last thing I want to do,
really is spend loads of time cooking.
- Prince William

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more
than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along
with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
- Bill Shuster

You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more
time with the hair and makeup people than I would?
- Lisa Guerrero

I think women are natural caretakers.
They take care of everybody.
They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs,
and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
- Reese Witherspoon

I wish I could remember where I put things.
I spend half my life looking for my keys.
With the other half I look for my glasses.
- Sara Paretsky

If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't
skimp on them and the same is true for the gym.
We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
- Madonna Ciccone

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time
was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
- Diogenes

If the (British) Arts Council give you money,
they also tell you how to spend it.
- Neville Marriner

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration
and every detail of a piece.
- Gavin Bryars

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie