Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Clare

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.

Herbie Hancock

As the 1960s began, jazz music was still at an apex, with hard bop groups led by the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane remaining a force on the musical landscape.

Kim Gordon

I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.

John Coltrane

says Jackson. ''It's a major part of our cultural landscape. Football comes in the fall, and so does the Coltrane concert.

Italo Calvino

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Lord Byron

My hair is grey, but not with years, / Nor grew it white / In a single night, / As men's have grown from sudden fears.

William T. Vollmann

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans holds a special place in my heart, because it is where I grew up,

Michael Gillman

Obviously, this is not what we wanted. But the result is not what's most important. We learned a lot this year and grew as a team.

George Romero

When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.

Tyra Banks

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

Daryl Sabara

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

Jeremy Davenport

New Orleans is where jazz was born, and jazz is my passion.

Debra Wilson

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

Dizzy Gillespie

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Chuck D.

I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

Baz Luhrmann

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

Paul Horn

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

Chris Carter

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

Paul Gibson

Like him or not, John Parks has prevailed at every turn.

Stanley Collender

Lyndon Johnson in his prime would have trouble getting it through.

Dick Cheney

Senator John McCain put it best: it is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people,

John Heywood

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

John Heywood

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Skip Bertman

No one has called me. But I think this shows what people think about John as a coach.

Brooks Boyer

Obviously, I'm disappointed because I'd love to keep John and Ed together.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

John Edward

We need a president who will keep you safe. John Kerry will do that,

Swae Lee

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

Ryan MacCarthy

Scott and I can't be everywhere. But now we're trying to take that list to the world.

Mal Pancoast

Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem.

Bobby Anglin

Mr. Romero was an ex-Marine, and Brandon loved to listen to his stories about being a Marine.

Bob Davidson

One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listened to her story - we realized (her) situation.

Steve Hackett

One minute you're listening to ones idea of what they think you ought to be and then the next thing, you start listening to yourself.

Kamanda Ndama

Music is philosophy. Every chord, every word tells a story. If you listen you will know its meaning.

Heidi Klum

Maybe he listened to what we'd been telling him.

Phil Fontaine

No one wanted to pull the plug before. That tells me they are listening and they see us as an important issue.

Steve Hackett

One minute you're listening to ones idea of what they think you ought to be and then the next thing, you start listening to yourself.

Phil Fontaine

No one wanted to pull the plug before. That tells me they are listening and they see us as an important issue.

Dean Rusk

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The first service that one owes to others consists in listening to them.

Deepak Chopra

Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.

Dave Navarro

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

William Whitelaw

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

David Thewlis

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

Dale Groutage

Sen. (Craig) Thomas has had at least 17 years to promote that technology.

Charles Pickering

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Patricia Edwards

If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.

Neil Kinnock

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Karine Vanasse

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

Casper Dien

When I do a film I go out and promote it.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Pat Conroy

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Ruth Ginsburg

What is subtle about what is described here?

Paul Muni

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

Michael Schudson

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Todd Hollenshead

In the movie, there's a little more subtlety of where they come from, ... Do they actually come from within us and how?

Norah Jones

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Roger Scruton

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

Aaron Eckhart

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.

Johnny Depp

I wouldn't say I'm a heart-throb. I just have a weird job.

Rick DiPietro

Like slow-motion, off the shin pads, ... Another weird bounce.

Liev Schreiber

When I read Jonathan's story, I said, 'This is just too weird and too serendipitous,'

Johnny Damon

It was a weird night. We could have been written off. Now we've got to go out and win some ballgames. Preferably three.

Mike Mills

The whole set was very intense, ... Lou and Kelli have some weird thing with each other.

A.J. Pierzynski

It was weird for me because I don't want to show up the other team.

Joe Simpson

It's not surprising. But it's going to be weird not working all of those games.

Jim Butcher

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.