Quotes About Allan Holdsworth

#1. The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

Roy H. Williams

#2. You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances ... and why he feels so barbarous ...

L. Ron Hubbard

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

Marc Ribot

#4. I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Karel Reisz

#5. In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine.

Ted Sizer

#6. Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

Vladimir Kramnik

#7. My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

Doc Watson

#8. If your body was well, you expected it to perform for you, excellently, consistently. If your body was not, your expectations were different.

Hanya Yanagihara

#9. At those times I got into ... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Val Guest

#10. I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly ... he could have gone a long time ago.

Gloria Estefan

#11. How would I feel if ... and just feel. Feel how other people feel, how the oceans, forests, and animals feel how the Earth feels.

Ilchi Lee

#12. When you are in the light, don't step back into the darkness. When you are in the darkness, know that the light will come.

Kathryn E. Livingston

#13. Don't let your hands dictate what you think you can do. Look at fingerboard charts and imagine your eyes dancing on the notes you want to play, and forget about whether your hands can do it or not. Just try it.

Allan Holdsworth