100+ Bill Frisell Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

Topics: Song, Phrases, Littles, Kaleidoscope

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

Topics: Hurt, Emotion, Kind, Human Emotions

For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

source: - "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

Topics: Play, White, People, Old Guys, Being Old

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

source: - "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

Topics: Play, Persons

I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true.

Topics: Simple, Trying, Complicated

I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.

source: - "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

Topics: School, Black And White, Lucky

I'm basically a pretty shy person and I don't dance or get into fights. But there are all these things inside me that get out when I perform. It's like a real world when I play, here I can do all the things that I can't do in real life.

Topics: Real, Fighting, Play, Shy Person

I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing.

source: - "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

Topics: Writing, Play, Feelings

I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.

Topics: Kids, Referencing, Heard

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

source: - "'When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward'". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

Topics: Play, Circles, People