Vitous Miroslav Quotes & Sayings

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples. — Miroslav Vitous

When I come over the top of the dune I see the ocean and I feel like I'm seeing it for the first time.
Today it's blue, straight and simple. Raw blue. — Kirsty Eagar

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Technology has become a force of nature. We can't control it. It comes blowing over the planet and there's nowhere for us to hide. — Don DeLillo

I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that's an important form of sport and recreation, too. — Bill Bowerman

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role. — Miroslav Vitous

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. — Miroslav Vitous

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there. — Miroslav Vitous

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass. — Miroslav Vitous

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies. — Miroslav Vitous

Those who have never despaired have neither lived nor loved. Hope is inseparable from despair. Those of us who truly hope make despair a constant companion whom we out-wrestle every day owing to our commitment to justice, love, and hope. — Cornel West

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here. — Miroslav Vitous

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose. — Miroslav Vitous

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. — Miroslav Vitous

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it. — Miroslav Vitous

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time. — Miroslav Vitous

This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years. — Kylie Minogue

Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend. — Miroslav Vitous

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see. — Jennifer Carpenter

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music. — Miroslav Vitous

I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived. — Miroslav Vitous

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer. — Miroslav Vitous

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova. — Miroslav Vitous

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open. — Miroslav Vitous

Incidentally, you really can scream with your heart; but it's incredibly painful. — Nina George

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke. — Miroslav Vitous

A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet. — T. S. Eliot

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything. — Miroslav Vitous

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way. — Shane McAnally

I'll do more than the average actor, but I'm smart enough to know why stunt guys exist. — Bruce Campbell

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore. — Miroslav Vitous

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going. — Miroslav Vitous

I look like Julian Clary on steroids. — Jo Brand

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me. — Miroslav Vitous

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap. — Miroslav Vitous

It had been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute. — Tom Robbins

I have never considered myself anything other than an environmentalist. I have spent the better part of my life either in the wilderness, or trying desperately to get there. — Wil S. Hylton