“Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.”
Lou Reed (1942–2013) American musician
In the liner notes of New York
“As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.”
The Man with Two Left Feet (1917)
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“If you have to help a person die, say nothing. Let the police do their own sleuthing.”
Derek Humphry book Final Exit
"Beware of the Law", p. 18
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Lucia Berlin (1936–2004) American writer
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Joanna Newsom (1982) American musician
Sunday Service, 13 December 2004
Context: I'm not terribly interested in playing harp on other people's music right now. Partly because I feel like many people view the harp as this kind of gimmick. You know, like they have songs that are fully realized, complete songs, and then they think "How do we make this special? - Ooh, let's bring the harp in!" and they kind of want a harpist to play a glissando and play some heavenly noise in the background. I'm really interested in the harp as a fully actualized, self-contained way of presenting songs. That there is a bass in the harp - there is a way to create a rhythmic sense without drums - there's a way to have all sorts of textural variations and expressive variations.
I also don't want to feel bound to the harp, I'd be interested in bringing other instruments in at some time. But I think the harp has been viewed in one particular way for so long, and has been limited for so long, that I feel like I am really interested in stretching the boundaries of what it's capable of doing and how it's perceived.
“No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth.”
Isaac Asimov book The Currents of Space
Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 11 “The Captain” (p. 114)