George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
baseball blood years
There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.
team league
American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.
baseball running looks
He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.
problem behinds
My problems are all behind me!
father mean knowing
My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.
teaching harmony instruments
I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.
player guitar world
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.
teacher going-out
The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.
music opportunity guitar
Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.
player guitar giving
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
player guitar careers
My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.
music play people
People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you!
music cat jazz
I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.
music kenny guitarist
There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell