“Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.” Quote by Hugh Hefner
“The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.” PeopleLifeMotivationalGuyInterestingFantasyInteresting Things Author:Hugh Hefner
“Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.” FactsProblemAudienceMusicianAffected Author:Hamid Drake
“Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.” PeopleStillsLeftReligiousLettersEnglandAgreeBoardsPersecutionPuritanScarletPuritanismReligious PersecutionDunking Author:Hugh Hefner
“If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.” IfsThinkingKnowsMindEmptyEmpty Mind Author:Hamid Drake
“When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.” WayDifferentCoursesLanguageProcessCreativeEuropeJazzCreative ProcessSensibilityReconstructionInterpretingDifferent LanguagesDeconstruction Author:Hamid Drake
“I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.” RocksGrewGrew UpTraditionJazzGenreRock And RollStandpointImprovisingFunkGenres Of Music Author:Hamid Drake
“The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.” WorldTogetherFoundMiddleMusicianUncertaintyOdd Author:Hamid Drake
“If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.” IfsKnowsFeelsHappensCareWho You AreDon't CareI Don't CareGuessingWhere You Come Author:Hamid Drake
“When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like 'planned out'.” PeopleFirstsPersonsPlayFactsListening Author:Hamid Drake
“Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine.” IfsMenWantQualityMalesRelateMake SenseFeminineMasculinityFemininityMasculineBeing A WomanYangYin And YangMasculine And Feminine Author:Hamid Drake