"Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well."

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"I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!"

Helena Bonham Carter, British Actress

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"Who am I to blow against the wind?"

Paul Simon, American Musician

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"I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan."

Matthew McGrory, American Actor

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"I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons."

Tommy Shaw, American Musician

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"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

Dolly Parton, American Musician

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"I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind."

Glenn Close, American Actress

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"After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating."

Method Man, American Musician

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"Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

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"That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it."

Hattie McDaniel, American Actress

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"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

Bruce Lee, American Actor

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"It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar."

Body

"And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you."

Art

"I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it."

Habit

"There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert."

Music

"We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more."

Business

"If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound."

Idea

"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."

Ability

"You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time."

Time

"As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets."

Now

"I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words."

Word