Frisell Quotes & Sayings

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. — Bill Frisell

There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do. — Gordon Brown

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge. — Bill Frisell

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy. — Bill Frisell

Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible
a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations. — Bill Frisell

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. — Bill Frisell

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. — Bill Frisell

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. — Bill Frisell

We must wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and He will come. He never comes to those who do not wait. — Frederick William Faber

To me, jazz is a place where anything is possible. — Bill Frisell

You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Don't go getting shy on me now. 'Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed. — Abbi Glines

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them. — Kathy Bates

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going. — Bill Frisell

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. — Bill Frisell

Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know? — John Lurie

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. — Bill Frisell

Thinkin' of a master plan
Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand. — Rakim

Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home. — Julie Garwood

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that. — Bill Frisell

America is one big maill with a country attached to it. — Ben Fountain

I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely. — Cassandra Clare

Where? I couldn't find anything on Meg's computer. I found the new email address All BS — Gayle Forman

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. — Bill Frisell

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it. — Roger Daltrey

It's incredible how one song or even one little phrase or just a few notes, if you really concentrate on it, can be a kaleidoscope of possibility. — Bill Frisell

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed! — C.J. Cherryh

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. — Bill Frisell

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance. — Claudia Roden

I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book
everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside. (from Parade Magazine interview, 5/26/13) — Stephen King

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible. — Annie Fellows Johnston

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

He moved into the left lane, rolled down his window, and tossed all of Alessandra's new clothes and her shoe out of the car. "Oh, my God!" She spun in her seat, watching as her clothes hit the ground seventy-five miles an hour, getting caught in the brush. "Oh, my God!" She stared at him, aghast. "Why did you do that? Are you completely out of your mind? — Suzanne Brockmann

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going. — Bill Frisell

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. — Bill Frisell

I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing. — Duncan Sheik