Famous Quotes & Sayings

DJ Jazzy Jeff

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

Dexter Gordon

Jazz to me is a living music.

David Sanborn

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Jane Asher

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Jan Garbarek

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Chris Carter

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Charlie Parker

You've got to learn your instrument.

Charles Mingus

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Kianna Smith

We've seen so many types of presses. I think I could sleep and still go through them. I knew that wouldn't be a problem.

Joe Cocker

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

The Weeknd

'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

Abby Wambach

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Theresa Russell

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.

Kirk Hinrich

We know we had Madison Square Gordon, so we knew we were in the driver's seat.

Tori Kelly

I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.

Khloe Kardashian

I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.

Erika Eleniak

I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.

Dita Von Teese

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

Liam Payne

I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me.

Johnny Kidd

It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.

Nicolas Roeg

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre.

Kiersey Clemons

When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.

Bill Cowher

Would I have liked to see us be more in sync in the passing game? Yes. And that's the one thing I come out of the preseason saying I wish we would have done better,

Jacqueline Bisset

What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.

Lisa Randall

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

Bill Jones

We did not have many seniors, so most of our team is returning. We're a year older and we should be bigger, stronger and faster.

Jane Fonda

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Lisa Graff

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Richard Sloan

Many studies, especially some of the older ones, have significant methodological flaws, which render the conclusions questionable.

Keith Richard

Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Joss Whedon

I had older brothers, and I don't think there's anything worse than an older brother. They pretty much told me the end of everything they got to see before I did.

Danielle Panabaker

I look younger; I feel younger. I'm in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.

Annette Bening

When I look at women, older than I am, in their 50s, 60, 70s, 80s, and I see women that I admire, I think, 'Oh, I get it; that's how I'm going to be.' I'm not scared. I want to be that.

Richard Anderson

We think the takeout is the right price for a well-located, yet older vintage multifamily portfolio. Shareholders should be pleased.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.