Jam Quotes - Page 7

• We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Objectivity, Traffic, Caught

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• I don't make summer jams or albums based on time or seasons; my goal is to make quality music, timeless music.  I'm not looking at the calendar.

  One Be Lo

  Summer, Goal, Quality

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• Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.

  Laura Riding

  Mother, Sight, Expression

  "The Matter of Metaphor". "Rational Meaning and Supplementary Essays". Book by Laura Riding and Schuyler B. Jackson, edited by William Harmon, 1997.

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• It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Hurt, Expectations, Choices

  "Get Inspired: Q&A with Deepak Chopra". Interview with Crystal Tate, www.womansday.com. December 11, 2009.

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• I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won from the contest for me and we decided to jam to one of his hit songs, ”Lucky”. I actually don’t remember how I was able to sing because I was so nervous at the time but it would also be a dream come true if i can have the honor to share the stage with Jason Mraz one day!

  Megan Lee

  Dream, Song, Nice

  "Interview with Megan Lee of Make It Pop!". Glitter Magazine Interview, glittermagrocks.com. March 25, 2015.

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• There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

  Jim Carrey

  Depression, Long, People

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• A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction Stories, Able, Science Fiction

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• I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them.

  Eddie Vedder

  Eagles, Years, Tickets

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything.

  Italo Calvino

  Pieces, Bread, Fantasy

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• I could probably throw harder if I wanted, but why? When they're in a jam, a lot of pitchers...try to throw harder. Me, I try to locate better.

  Greg Maddux

  Trying, Pitching, Pitcher

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• People wonder if the Pearl Jam audience will get into The Buzzcocks. Eddie Vedder is a big Buzzcocks fan. He used to come to see Buzzcocks before he was in Pearl Jam. If his fans like what he likes, I guess that they might like The Buzzcocks.

  Steve Diggle

  People, Fans, Pearls

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• It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different ways. The best songs I find always come from the subconscious, like when you don't think. Not to be pretentious about it, but usually songs just blurt out rather than thinking about it. I never write lyrics and then do a song, I find that really hard - that's like a real skill.

  Luke Pritchard

  Song, Real, Writing

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• Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and I get excited talking about making record artwork or working with T-shirt designs. The least exciting part for us is talking about the finances; it's like going to the dentist for us. But we at least try to do it in a creative way and put our stamp on it. I can only think that we create something that's worth the value of that dollar.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, Talking, Creative

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow, that sounds like classical music." Somebody else might think it sounds like a slow jam.

  John Dieterich

  Thinking, Numbers, Sound

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I ain't going to lie: I was happy, man. Me and my sisters and my brother was mad cool. We all did the music thing. My dad had the keys to the church, so we would go over there and jam. So I just want my kids to have fun the right way. I want their type of trouble to be, like, "Aw, Dad, I locked the keys in the car." I don't want to hear about, "Oh, my friend just got shot."

  Fetty Wap

  Brother, Fun, Dad

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.

  Mark Ronson

  Thinking, Records, Bass

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". weaa.org. April 16, 2015.

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• The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.

  Colin Meloy

  Song, Guitar, Stuff

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• It feels like the older you get - or maybe that doesn't even matter - you have to get a forcing incentive to do stuff. It doesn't matter how fun it is to jam or have dinner with someone or whatever. You just have to force yourself into making it happen. That's my technique for doing things that I really like to do - it can happen on so many things.

  Pontus Winnberg

  Fun, Technique, Incentives

  "An Amason Supergroup". Interview with Mathias Rosenzweig, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2015.

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• If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

  Delia Smith

  Nerves, Mayors, Traffic

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

  Jade Hassoune

  Play, Piano, Guitar

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Trying, Moments, Accepting

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.

  Graham Greene

  Strong, Food, College

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.

  John Oates

  Opportunity, Skills, Gone

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• I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.

  Richard Price

  Writing, Character, Needs

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• A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?

  Pam Brown

  Gratitude, Children, Flower

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