#ear

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#arrived #because #before #europe #extremely

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

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#aside #bass #common #course #infinite

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#come #god #hearts #more #others

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#cure #education #formal #formal education #fortifies

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#care #disciplined #early #i #i believe

I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#courage #everything #had #heels #i

In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#covers #days #did #early #felt

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#again #beginning #beginnings #came #follows

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#annual #british #chum #fiction #first