Session Quotes - Page 15

• I like to go into the studio and let things happen. I like to just let the session take on. I don't want to have to clock in at nine and end at eight. That's just not me, that's not how my creativity flows.

  Brooke Valentine

  Creativity, Eight, Want

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions. After all that I pretty much knew playing guitar was something I was going to do because I just had to do it. And I did.

  Billy Gibbons

  Kings, Dad, Guitar

  "BYT Interviews: Billy Gibbons". Interview with Jonny Grave, nyc.brightestyoungthings.com. January 18, 2016.

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• When I go and write with other artists - a lot of the time it's with them - it's like a therapy session almost. I ask them what they're listening to and what they're going through and what their influences are and I try to get inside of their head and step into their shoes for a second.

  Bonnie McKee

  Writing, Artist, Shoes

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• Good cardio helps in any athletic practice, but in jujitsu, it has been very helpful late in a sparring session where a long roll starts to take its toll on your cardio.

  Andy Lally

  Practice, Long, Athletic

  Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

  Elvis Presley

  Hate, Jam, Lasts

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• Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.

  Norman Grubb

  Prayer, Believe, Adventure

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• In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the stories of tired tradition and galvanizes them, setting them to dance for us in wonderful, new interpretations.

  Cat Rambo

  Tired, Intelligent, Stories

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• I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.

  John Baldessari

  Couple, Teaching, Thinking

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• The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation.

  Allan Pease

  Phones, Use, Way

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• At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition." I hoped I suffered from something serious, a clear syndrome, maybe requiring heavy medication and hospitalization. I pictured myself wearing a robe and paper slippers and looking out of a window with bars on it. I wanted to be relieved of the responsibility of taking any action to help myself.

  Ken Dornstein

  Depression, Responsibility, Bars

  Ken Dornstein (2007). “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky”, p.134, Vintage

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• Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

  Franz Kafka

  Reality, Names, Speak

  "Reflections on Sin, Pain, Hope, and the True Way" (1917 - 1920)

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• All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

  H. L. Mencken

  Zoos, Freedom, Political

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.365, Vintage

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• So I'm pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet because I'm worth it.

  Cody Lundin

  Feet, Survival, Pampering

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• Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

  Richard Branson

  Team, Survival, Problem

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• Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Morning, Writing

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• Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.

  Tony Levin

  Focus, Awkward, Done

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• You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

  Barry Mann

  Writing, Brave, Firsts

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• I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

  Barry McGuire

  Mean, Used, Come Up

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• Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

  Tony Visconti

  Jobs, Directors, Records

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• Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, Sunday, Lessons To Be Learned

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.41, Penguin

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• But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.

  Donovan McNabb

  Team, Focus, Needs

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• There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.

  Rick Santorum

  Bills, Months, Republican

  "Santorum's Health Care Stall Tactic: 'Offer Literally Thousands of Amendments' to Keep Senate in Session for Months". www.mediamatters.org. February 27, 2010.

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• Whoever uses psychedelics should treat them with greatest respect. When Aldous and I used them, we prepared the ambience and ourselves the day before. The day of the session was kept as a holy day, and there were beautiful fruits and flowers around. The result was, that we had no negative experiences.

  Laura Huxley

  Beautiful, Flower, Holy Days

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• Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into work units that need to be completed. You gotta turn it into a treatment, a script, a grant application, a bunch of forms to be filled out, a shooting schedule, casting sessions, auditions, shooting, editing, music compositions, the film festival circuit, interviews even. And by the time you've finished the process you're so sick and tired by something that was once very precious to you that you're done with it.

  Guy Maddin

  Tired, Editing, Filled Out

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If this is something you'd truly like to work on, not out of a sense of guilt but because you would enjoy occasionally reciprocating, there are a wealth of resources out there for the enthusiastic amateur (you are far from the only would-be blow-jobber whose spirit is willing but gag reflex is weak). You have more options than "no blow jobs, ever" and "regular whole-hog sessions to completion that result in vomiting."

  Mallory Ortberg

  Jobs, Blow, Guilt

  "Open Shut Case" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. December 22, 2015.

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