Marc Ribot Quotes

#1. I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

Annie E. Clark

#2. Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

Marc Ribot

#3. Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

Marc Ribot

#4. Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Marc Ribot

#5. This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#6. Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

Marc Ribot

#7. Don't forget to vote.

Frank Zappa

#8. Edilio sighed and leaned forward, elbows on the desk. Quinn, listen, man. We need stuff back to normal.

Michael Grant

#9. I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.

Marc Ribot

#10. I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

Marc Ribot

#11. I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

Marc Ribot

#12. It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events with them, and I don't feel I should purposely avoid something just for the sake of being different.

Jesse Kellerman

#13. I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.

Cassandra Clare