Hal Blaine quotes

“You gotta understand also that teenage kids just don't have the experience and the studio technique. I mean, in those days it wasn't electronic like it is today, where you can hit a drum and, you know, the engineer does it all. In those days, everything was live and you had to have decent sounds, and through the years you get to weed out what's bad and what's good.”
-- Hal Blaine

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“I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands.”
-- Hal Blaine

Source : Interview with Derrick Bostrom, derrickbostrom.net. October 6, 2006.

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“I did Nancy Sinatra in Vegas a number of times, and then the Sinatra family, when we did Frankie and the Muppets. Big show in Vegas.”
-- Hal Blaine

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“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.”

Source : 'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'

“FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.”

“I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.”

Source : "Alice Englert Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Getting the Southern Accent Right, and TWILIGHT Comparisons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

“Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.”

“I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.”

“The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.”

“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”

“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”

“We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.”