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When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by listening to jazz in the late 1940s and then vocal harmony groups like the Four Freshmen, the Modernaires and the Hi-Lo's. I loved Stan Kenton's big band - with those dark chords and musicians who could swing cool with individual sounds.
Frankie Valli
Musicians
Dark
Listening
Big
Band
Jazz
Late
Harmony
Kid
Those
Vocal
Emerson
Could
Individual
Like
Big Band
Sounds
Freshmen
Covers
Listen
Loved
Then
Stan
Used
Who
Cool
Radio
Chords
Groups
Swing
Four
Started
Night
At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.
Frankie Valli
Facebook
People
Problem
School
Singing
Pool
Bathroom
Locker
Locker Room
Out
Jobs
Echo
Could
Like
Know
Reached
Sing
Hall
How
Came
Up
Get
Hang
Going
Where
Which
Room
Groups
Keep
Professionally
Chamber
Started
I don't think I've been to any country where everybody was supportive - there's always churches or groups who don't like my theology or that we associate with this group or that group.
Franklin Graham
Country
Group
Think
Everybody
Churches
Supportive
Like
Always
Been
Any
Where
Theology
Who
Groups
Associate
My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.
Frans Lanting
Work
You
Sometimes
Wife
Dance
Animals
Become
Fall
Wild
Else
Everything
Once
Way
Says
Mood
Intuitive
More
Like
Involves
Becoming
Than
Behind
Movements
Different
Anything
Anything Else
Your
Reason
Creatures
Letting
Start
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
Frans de Waal
Blame
Dark
Innocents
Some
Animalistic
Instinct
Like
Behave
Senseless
Warfare
Slaughter
Humans
I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.
Frans de Waal
Music
Training
Sit
Too
Puppet
Puppet Show
Restless
Entire
Totally
Only
Through
Mass
Like
Liked
Looked
Boy
Line
Predictable
Story
Really
Aspect
Aversion
Show
Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability.
Frans van Houten
History
Path
Victory
Heroes
Will
Doubt
Back
Our
Circular
Feature
Put
Major
Obstacles
Like
Economy
However
Shift
Linear
Persevere
Pioneers
Human
Sustainability
Tumultuous
Transitions
Human History
Moments
Growth
Changes can be made. New decisions can be made. If people say, 'It's not like that in the comics!' Well, comic books reinvent their characters a lot. They do different things with them all the time. They're always changing, always keeping things fresh. So that shouldn't be an issue if the race changes for a character.
Franz Drameh
Time
Character
People
Made
Changes
Changing
Books
Say
Characters
People Say
New
Like
Well
Fresh
Always
Comic
Comic Books
Comics
Issue
Lot
Different
Decisions
Race
Them
Different Things
Keeping
Reinvent
Things
I'd really love to check out medieval times. I'm obsessed with that kind of stuff, like on a horseback with a sword.
Franz Drameh
Love
Out
Kind
Horseback
Obsessed
Check
Stuff
Like
Times
Really
Sword
Medieval
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
Wisdom
Genius
Sun
Lightning
Like
Flash
Resembles
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Franz Grillparzer
Art
Journey
Science
Poetry
Purpose
Prose
Excursion
Like
Another
Goal
Same
Differ
Process
Token
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.
Franz Grillparzer
Freedom
Guns
Seems
Poem
Feet
Like
Arms
Within
Verses
Requires
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
Franz Liszt
Others
Find
Windmill
Like
Wagner
Beethoven
Led
Conductor
Little
Who
Works
Functions
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
Franz Schubert
God
Has-Been
Composing
Had
Simply
Like
Am
Been
Done
I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.
Franz Wright
Myself
You
Book
Books
Way
Giant
Would
Would-Be
Entirely
Could
Idea
Like
Read
Comfort
Came
Infinite
Different
Order
Deck
Then
Pages
Used
Shuffle
Thing
Cards
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
Fred Allen
Treat
Employees
Like
Partners
Act
Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things.
Fred Armisen
You
Respect
Yourself
People
Surround Yourself
Like
Around
Making
Surround
Just
Want
Keep
Things
Sometimes in Portland I'm like, 'Who is funding this city?' It's doing great - there's all these new shops; there's a synthesizer store. Where is this coming from?
Fred Armisen
Great
Sometimes
Synthesizer
City
New
Like
Coming
Doing
Shops
Where
Store
Who
Portland
Funding
I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.
Fred Armisen
Me
Feeling
Live
Almost
Feel
Stuff
Like
Know
Well
Felt
Still
Came
Very
Wanted
Much
Even
Away
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.
Fred Armisen
Love
Me
People
Before
Nice
Live
Everyone
Kind
Stayed
Stays
Never
Feel
Like
Always
Left
Close
Quite
Which
Really
Show
Who
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.
Fred Armisen
Me
People
Jobs
Like
Look
Looked
Steve
Steve Jobs
Rock
Real
Rock Star
His
Products
Forward
Star
Albums
There's something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I'm like, 'Why is this so easy and sweet?'
Fred Armisen
Time
Sweet
Every
Every Time
Airport
Easy
About
Somehow
Something
Like
Go
Just
Really
Why
Portland
When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.
Fred Armisen
Art
Great
Entertainment
Culture
People
Old
Think
Way
Say
Statues
Entertainers
City
People Say
Named
Like
Makes
Does
Built
Still
Dollars
Very
After
Really
Billions
Billions Of Dollars
Even
Specific
Streets
I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.
Fred Armisen
Great
Think
Monty
Monty Python
Television
Favorite
Television Shows
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Some
Python
Like
Know
Been
Done
Movie
Really
Shows
I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.
Fred Armisen
Crazy
Like
Person
Crazy Person
There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tengo has invited me to play with them.
Fred Armisen
Me
Will
Stage
Record
Had
Invite
Invited
Like
Couple
Am
La
Up
Friends
Bands
Them
Les
Who
Play
Played
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