Comping Quotes

#1. I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

Gary Burton

#2. What the fuck, Ian? I'm your partner. Before anything else, I'm the guy who - " "No!" he roared. "Before anything else you're my life, you stupid prick!

Mary Calmes

#3. Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#4. Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?"
"Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

Roger Zelazny

#5. My eyes darted between them, and even thoygh I was brimming with questions, it's like I had so many I had no idea where to begin. All I knew for sure was that I was going back.
Back to the earth plane.
The glorious earth plane!

Alyson Noel

#6. What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.

Sylvia Plath

#7. I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

Alice Walker

#8. And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

John Green

#9. I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.

Mariel Hemingway

#10. Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

Steve Stockman

#11. The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It's completely pointless.

Anthony Bourdain

#12. I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.

Gil Gerard

#13. My philosophy on running is, I don't dwell on it, I do it.

Joan Benoit