Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Carter

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

David Sanborn

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

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.

Charles Mingus

Everything I do is Mingus.

Edgar Meyer

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

Edgar Winter

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

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.

Bryce Courtenay

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

Nayvadius Cash

I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.

Luca Parmitano

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

Robert Krulwich

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

Earl Sweatshirt

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

Michael Egan

We want our customers to have fun. I tell everyone that any (customer) who beats me in a game of horseshoes gets 15 percent off.

Demi Lovato

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

Lev Grossman

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Rick Perlstein

There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum.

Matt Maldre

Search for variety in between the rhythm of what we already know, and you will find wonder.

Richard Kovalcheck

I feel like we got in a rhythm towards the end there,

Jameer Nelson

I feel like I'm starting to get my rhythm now.

Ai Miyazato

I don't feel tired at all, and want to keep with the rhythm I have right now.

Shinji Mori

I did that a lot in Japan. By doing that, I can get some rhythm back and keep my balance.

C. S. Lewis

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

Alex Lifeson

I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

Sophie Marceau

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

John Burnside

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.