Ray Still quotes

“Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!”
-- Ray Still

#Moving Quotes #Musical Quotes #Sound Quotes

“In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.”
-- Ray Still

#Art Quotes #Order Quotes #Play Quotes

“[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.”
-- Ray Still

#Listening Quotes #Musician Quotes #Involved Quotes

“Demand more of yourself.”
-- Ray Still

#Demand Quotes

“God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!”

“Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.”

“It was always part of the plan to move into acting.”

“The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop I might never forget or get over. That was what scared me the most. Not being able to move on.”

“I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)”

“When I fart my ***** makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.”

“I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.”

“I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.”