Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.
'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
I've definitely been to my fair share of Dodger games growing up. Didn't grow up too far from the stadium. That's where I first learned, first watched major-league baseball.
A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.
My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.
In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites.
I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.
I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a bass player. This is what I'm gonna do.' And I really dove into it head first.
When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
On Christmas, when I was 13, my mom got me my first laptop. I downloaded it, FruityLoops, cause I had heard about it, and started messing around.
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
I used to say my biggest accomplishment was just getting drafted, whether it was the first pick or the 100th or whatever.
I've always preferred writing in longhand. I've always written first drafts in longhand.
