Top 33 John Otto Quotes
#1. Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.
John Otto
#2. Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible.
Raymond Louis Wilder
#3. It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.
John Otto
#4. I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an atheist.
[Letter to Max Otto]
John Dewey
#5. When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
John Otto
#6. I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.
John Otto
#7. I thought of Otto Frank not being a father anymore, left with a diary instead of a wife and two daughters.
John Green
#8. Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.
John Otto
#9. I also don't understand why I should let some guy fondle me when I know the relationship has no future.
Katherine Applegate
#10. I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
John Otto
#11. I've always liked funk and rock and everything.
John Otto
#12. We've got many different sides of music to us.
John Otto
#13. When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.
John Otto
#14. Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
John Otto
#17. You were the first to do her harm. You were the first person to make the world dangerous for her.
Ava Dellaira
#18. OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy.
WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.
John Cleese
#19. Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.
John Otto
#20. I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.
John Otto
#21. Successful people (or soon-to-be success people) never quit, never settle and are never satisfied
Nick Macri
#22. The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.
John Green
#24. But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.
John Otto
#25. No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.
Charlotte Lennox
#26. The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.
Masaru Ibuka
#27. Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.
Jeremy Taylor
#28. I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
John Otto
#29. When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.
John Otto
#30. I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.
John Otto
#31. I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.
Jim Otto
#32. Creation requires sacrifice and when it is finished it is embraced by a few but misunderstood and rejected by many.
Christ John Otto
#33. We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.
John Otto
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