Tony Levin Quotes

#1. Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

Will Rogers

#2. I couldn't call our friendship fate, but it was bigger than anything I'd know before

Kiera Cass

#3. Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music

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#4. People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

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#5. When the spiritual light is concentrated in the brain, everything else must be sinking in the dark.

Carl Linnaeus

#6. Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows.

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#7. From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.

Tony Levin

#8. John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish I'd had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.

Tony Levin

#9. I've lived with someone and probably will again, but I don't want children and I have known that since I was little. My parents thought I would change my mind. My boyfriends always think I'm going to change my mind, but it never happened. I fall in love with my businesses.

Carmen Busquets

#10. I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

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#11. You could have heard a rat tinkle it was so quiet.

Annie Knox

#12. For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

Lew Wallace

#13. I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved.

Skrillex

#14. The most fun is to play clubs, because you actually get to see the people.

Tony Levin

#15. We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

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#16. Ability is sexless.

John Henry Newman

#17. Like many musicians, I don't look back much ... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

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#18. When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

Chris Rock

#19. I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

Tony Levin

#20. I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.

Dee Dee Ramone

#21. Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11.

Michael Bloomberg

#22. Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.

Tony Levin

#23. I've done four other films since 'Submarine,' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work; I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world.

Craig Roberts

#24. Other people have other goals, and sometimes the BSD style licenses are better for those goals. I personally tend to prefer the GPL, but that really doesn't mean that the GPL is any way inherently superior - it depends on what you want the license to do.

Linus Torvalds

#25. For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

Tony Levin

#26. Obviously it was meant to tell us nothing, which is exactly the opposite function of a book.

Gareth Roberts

#27. Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.

Tony Levin

#28. Every fighter is my toughest challenge to date. After I get done with one fight, the next challenge is the toughest.

Andre Ward