#yin

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me. ↗

— Evan Parker

#came #decision #discovered #doors #having

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway. ↗

— Evan Parker

#different #different things #difficult #enough #even

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations. ↗

— Evan Parker

#aspects #certain #could #developed #elements

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything. ↗

— Molly Parker

#costumes #first #first thing #general #indicate

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!' ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#back #be kind #book #color #coming

Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this. ↗

— Sean Parker

#bored #connections #develop #facebook #feels

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those. ↗

— Sean Parker

#challenge #entrepreneur #find #going #huge

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin! ↗

— Alan Parsons

#gates #god #had #kremlin #oh

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#big #brain #break #bruce #doing

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause