Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
-
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
-
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
-
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
-
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
-
The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
-
I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
-
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
-
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
-
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
-
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
-
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
-
The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
-
I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
-
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
-
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
-
The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
-
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
-
The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
-
I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
-
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
-
In a culture obsessed with happiness, Americans may not be allowing for acceptance that it's OK to sometimes not be perky.
-
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
