Gary Giddins Quotes
Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.Gary Giddins
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
Aaron Diehl -
Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
M. Stanton Evans -
I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
Eddi Reader -
Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
Fat Joe -
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
J. D. Vance -
I do everything that everybody else does.
Vanna White -
Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
Karl Malone -
I like everything from Miu Miu. Dolce & Gabbana cocktail dresses are a party essential; they're so flattering.
Harley Viera-Newton -
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Patrick Stewart -
We practically own everything in the Philippines.
Imelda Marcos
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
Sampha -
The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
Rachel Bloom -
Everything must change, everything must move forward.
Pat Benatar -
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey -
Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
Oscar Isaac -
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
Brian Tracy
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We are not by nature cruel.
J. M. Coetzee -
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
G. Willow Wilson -
When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.
Carl Reiner -
I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
Ma Huateng -
There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
Callum Keith Rennie -
Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.
Gary Giddins