#cia

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing. ↗

— John Zorn

#closed #ears #get #going #great

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like. ↗

— John Zorn

#away #everything #find #good #great

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#abroad #boarding #boarding school #book #cia

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now. ↗

— John Zorn

#city #concentrate #got #group #hardcore

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial. ↗

— Allan Carr

#audience #crucial #first #go #lose

Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword. ↗

— David Carradine

#airport #around #create #everybody #extras

To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special. ↗

— Gary Carter

#kid #kind #now #old #special

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#also #because #ears #especially #furry

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials. ↗

— David Zucker

#business #business partners #commercials #create #distribution

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#art #boundaries #common #common language #language