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writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
guitar trying sound
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar. Brian Eno
guitar play differences
You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
guitar way compliment
I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way. Dave Edmunds
guitar picnics tables
Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table. Dave Barry
guitar car perfect
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles. Buddy Guy
guitar play people
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!' Carlos Santana
guitar play towns
If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.
guitar long people
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
guitar goes-on playing-guitar
I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them. James Young
piano study
I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me. Carl Andre
piano littles sometimes
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears. Agnes Obel
piano feet
I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano. Brian Wilson
piano trying painting
I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand. Caio Fonseca
piano firsts first-time
I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life. Buffy Sainte-Marie
piano grew grew-up
I grew up playing classical piano and percussion. Janina Gavankar
piano television ends
'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway. Jane Campion
pianos
We're still hauling pianos around and relocating mailboxes. John Sinclair
piano tone action
Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb. Billy Taylor