Quotes About Fleck

#1. Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

Diane Ackerman

#2. Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

Sarah Helen Whitman

#3. It was in the horizon of existence, that the Big Bang must have created our souls, we loved each other like the plane of time doesn't hold a fleck of control over us.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#4. Proud houses fall into decline and great cities pass into ruin. The stories of those things are lost to forgotten languages and moth-eaten scrolls. Vine and root grapple with the rune carved in stone, and rust carries away, fleck by fleck, the great gates of iron.

William Timothy Murray

#5. He could see tiny particles of dust drifting in the air between her ankles, each fleck tumbling individually in and out of the sunlight, and there was something intensely familiar in their arrangement.

Anthony Doerr

#6. Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

James Sanderson

#7. One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.

Michael Flynn

#8. Lexie's baby. Four weeks ... not quite a quarter of an inch: a tiny gemstone, a single spark of color slipping between your fingers and through the cracks and gone. A heart the size of a fleck of glitter and vibrating like a hummingbird, seeded with a billion things that would never happen now.

Tana French

#9. Kernel grins. "To the death, Master Grady?"
"To the death, Master Fleck," I grin back.
Then we both say together, "But not ours!

Darren Shan

#10. There'll be a little metal fleck in the football, so you can tell for sure whether the guy with the ball got over the goal line or was pushed back.

Tex Schramm

#11. In other words, learn your Scruggs's rolls before trying to play like Bela Fleck.

Tony Trischka

#12. Hatred is like a dam waiting to burst, and when it does, it is more devastating than what you had originally intended.

Angelina Fleck

#13. The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

Ludwik Fleck

#14. I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I suddenly became convinced I couldn't miss. All I tried to do was keep the sensation by not questioning it.

Jack Fleck

#15. I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

Bela Fleck

#16. When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

Bela Fleck

#17. Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

Bela Fleck

#18. The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.

Ludwik Fleck

#19. I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.

Bela Fleck

#20. I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

Bela Fleck

#21. There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.

Bela Fleck

#22. I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

Bela Fleck

#23. I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

Bela Fleck

#24. My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

Bela Fleck

#25. So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

Bela Fleck

#26. I don't know enough about hip-hop, though I've heard some great hip-hop. I just did a thing with Qwest Love - we did a performance together in Memphis at the Folk Alliance Festival, and we had a great jam and a conversation.

Bela Fleck

#27. Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

Ludwik Fleck

#28. It's one thing to go into a fight knowing you'll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit.

Darren Shan

#29. And then Earl Scruggs comes along and transforms the banjo into a virtuosic modern instrument. For the first time, the Southern banjo style becomes the identity of the banjo, and everything from before is wiped off of people's consciousness by the power of that explosion.

Bela Fleck

#30. There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.

Bela Fleck

#31. Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.

Ludwik Fleck

#32. They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

Bela Fleck

#33. I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.

Bela Fleck

#34. I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

Bela Fleck

#35. Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

Bela Fleck