#ally

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#engineer #father #federal #federal reserve #finally

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#charge #directly #director #film #hired

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#age #basically #because #died #get

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#am #anymore #back #bass #bass players

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#along #bass #bass player #bass players #came

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#because #break #come #coming #father

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#lift #off #really #right #stage

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#because #casually #cost #expected #had

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bright #canada #ever #fellow #i

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. ↗

— Diana Vreeland

#elegance #got #mind #only #real