Lee Ritenour Quotes

#1. If you like a football team, you watch their games.
If you like football, you watch all the games.
If you love football, you watch the draft.
If you can't get enough football, you watch the combine.

T.C. Slonaker

#2. To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

Bernard Tschumi

#3. Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

Lee Ritenour

#4. I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

Benicio Del Toro

#5. I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

Marion Cotillard

#6. I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Lee Ritenour

#7. I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now.

Lee Ritenour

#8. Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.

Lee Ritenour

#9. I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

China Machado

#10. Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we?

Dave Eggers

#11. I always recommend to any player to always compose their own music. It's one of the best things you can do to find a road to your own style.

Lee Ritenour

#12. In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.

Lee Ritenour

#13. My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.

Lee Ritenour

#14. peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexed.

Stephen King

#15. We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

Lady Gregory

#16. Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

Lee Ritenour

#17. Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

Octavio Paz

#18. I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

Christopher Atkins

#19. Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually.

Lee Ritenour

#20. If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

Lee Ritenour

#21. Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

David Beckham

#22. I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.

Lee Ritenour

#23. It was okay to run.
Running was good; anyone who said otherwise would be the first one to die in a horror movie.

Amelia LeFay

#24. I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part.

Lee Ritenour

#25. I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman.

Sophia Tolstaya