Orcutt Quotes

#1. Some screw for science only in the afternoon, while others keep their faith with evening - here Orcutt chuckled - it's a matter of light, I understand, but which makes which I can't remember.

William H Gass

#2. There was Malcolm in the front row, his hand resting on the shoulder of the knight I knew as Poe. I looked at the list of names beneath the photo.
-James Orcutt.
What a ridiculously normal name. I'd half been expecting Darth Vader

Diana Peterfreund

#3. One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way.

Mircea Andreescu

#4. The nice thing about solo is I don't have to coordinate with anyone else's schedule, since it's hard for me just to have a free 15 minutes here and there.

Bill Orcutt

#5. Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

Sinclair Lewis

#6. People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.

Karen Maitland

#7. We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
"I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

Cassandra Clare

#8. I had opportunities to play with other people and give my self some sort of security, but for some reason I wanted to play solo and just put it out there.

Bill Orcutt

#9. I shivered from the warmth of it.

Chris Orcutt

#10. Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

Livy

#11. I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.

Bill Orcutt

#12. I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back.

Bill Orcutt

#13. Sometimes there's someone who makes you feel so at home that you flourish.

Marnie Woodrow

#14. There's a difference between music that's original and music that's retro. A lot of bands now are kind of retro 70s whether it's Kraut-rock or ... I've heard people suggest that we're kind of retro 80s.

Bill Orcutt

#15. In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.

Bill Orcutt

#16. With Fred McDowell, I just love the way he articulates the notes. I'm hardly unique in that, but there's just something about that that I love.

Bill Orcutt

#17. There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considered every option, and he would go, " Did you think of this? " said Fadell. " And then we'd all go, " Holy Shit." He'd redefine the problem or approach, and our little problem would go away.

Walter Isaacson

#18. I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

Jennifer O'Neill

#19. There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

Fernando Pessoa

#20. I'm uptight in general, and it's hard for me to play in a situation where I'm not rehearsed or I feel like I'm not prepared. So it's always hard for me to come away from those and think it was the best thing I could do.

Bill Orcutt

#21. I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.

Bill Orcutt

#22. We can now with Google Glasses record everything around us, and we can make sure that nothing is ever forgotten because everything is stored somewhere in Google servers or somewhere else.

Evgeny Morozov

#23. I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.

Bill Orcutt

#24. I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.

Bill Orcutt

#25. The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

Leah Blundell

#26. A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.

Bill Orcutt

#27. I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow piano players, I feel more of a connection to , now that I'm using the acoustic.

Bill Orcutt

#28. It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.

Bill Orcutt

#29. Remember that common sense is not common practice, and that people who succeed are often those who do the little, everyday things that others won't.

Todd Henry

#30. I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Dave Grohl