I got to talk to people like Mel [Lewis] and Milt Hilton and Benny Carter and Clark Terry and. . . Jay McShann. I just found myself in some circumstances, on some gigs or sometimes in clubs, with the ability to talk to some of these people. Just being around their energy and being around that history was invaluable. And what I normally say to young people that are getting into the music, if you can and go. . . now there's less of those folks around, sadly.
We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.
Normally for work I will fly business class.
What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.
Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big. ” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.
I think it is an anarchistic idea to have information on the front and the back. Normally if you add information to information, you have more information.
Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song come out in a subconscious way, but then you might have to crack it to a certain degree, where you might use parts of your brain that you don't normally use.
I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.
For me I'm actually doing what I normally do when I do my solo thing and the other thing is actually more new to me.
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.
I had decided that I wanted a dog from an animal shelter. Normally, presidents have purebred dogs, but my is a Labrador-griffon mix. Absolutely adorable.
Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
I certainly was not the romantic lead. I couldn't be that, because I was not that good looking. And that is something about Hollywood that I do not like at all. Why can't a woman who is just normally good looking fall in love? I mean, everybody in the movies is so good looking.
Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
And like I said, I didn't know him very well, but my ears perked up whenever I heard his name. I guess I wanted to hear something - anything - juicy. Not because I wanted to spread gossip. I just couldn't believe someone could be that good. If he was actually that good. . . wonderful. Great! But it became a personal game of mine. How long could I go on hearing nothing but good things about Clay Jensen? Normally, when a person has a stellar image, another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself. But not with Clay.