William John Evans (Bill Evans) Quotes

I went through a lot of mental pains and anguish about choosing between jazz and classical. I realized that where I functioned was where I should be, and where I functioned was in jazz, so that was it.

William John Evans

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• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Acting

• 'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Song

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Time
  • Think
  • Him

• There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

  

  Iman
  • Time
  • Important
  • Age

• I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sacrifice

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Seeing

• There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Respect
  • Kindness
  • Generosity

• When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fear

• Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Control
  • Lost

• Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Education
  • College

• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Knowing

• What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Long
  • Way

• I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
  • Democracy
  • Better
  • Rules

• I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Crazy
  • Like
  • Go

• If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Ego
  • Cross
  • Trip

• I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

  

  David Hepworth
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Character

• The current use of the National Guard is wrong... These are men who did not sign up to go occupy foreign nations.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Up
  • Men

• When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Focus

• I went through a lot of mental pains and anguish about choosing between jazz and classical. I realized that where I functioned was where I should be, and where I functioned was in jazz, so that was it.

  

  William John Evans