#through

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#because #bending #breakthrough #couple #every

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

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#avenue #capitol #capitol hill #down #first

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. ↗

— Phyllis Gotlieb

#certainly #comes #go #gods #hell

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that. ↗

— Gotye

#completely #draw #easily #feel #formed

I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings McDonald's. ↗

— Gotye

#all day #bat #clearly #coffee #crash

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs. ↗

— Gotye

#bunch #give #gives #greater #hope

We pass through this world but once. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#pass #through #world

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#acquire #begin #country #cultural #earth

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#advice #grave #joke #more #sometimes