#ears

When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#everybody #everything #fact #first #improvise

It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then. ↗

— Peter Hain

#been #changed #fascinating #got #hair

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#biologist #largely #problem #size #socialism

It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it. ↗

— Alex Van Halen

#between #nine #take #time #undo

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#beach #city #college #contests #crazy

I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#blessed #ears #fingers #fooled #good

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#developed #ear #ears #eric #eric clapton

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#almost #became #before #carolina #first

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business. ↗

— Nikki Haley

#business #company #dollar #due #home