Donald Byrd Quotes

I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'

Donald Byrd

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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.

Paloma Elsesser
- Time
- Work
- Different
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

Callie Khouri
- Up
- Writing
- Character
Self-doubt kills talent.

Edie McClurg
- Doubt
- Talent
- Self-Doubt
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

C. S. Lewis
- Friendship
- Will
- Naked
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

Kate Winslet
- Up
- Together
- Happy
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

Adam Lambert
- Think
- Always
- Majority