Bobby Keys Quotes

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Wish
  • Space
  • Relationships

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Depression

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Day

• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

  Halsey
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Sanity

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Country
  • Question

• I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • More
  • My Own

• A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Career
  • Want

• Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Help

• Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.

  

  Kate Brown
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Values
  • Employees
  • Cynical

• If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Men
  • Want
  • Train

• I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Day
  • Sometimes
  • Bag

• Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Feeling
  • Golf
  • Calm

• In the old days you could do re-runs, and people would have to watch that because there's nothing else. But with Netflix and Amazon, Hulu, Xbox, as well as premium and regular cable, it's very hard to do that.

  

  Jeffrey Bell
  • People

• Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • World
  • Music
  • Perhaps

• It was great to go to Stanford. Until that point, I'd spent my whole life in southeast Michigan, working for General Motors. I was in a different part of the country. People didn't know what General Motors was, didn't care, or if they did, they might not have had a favorable impression. I saw people driving nondomestic vehicles.

  

  Mary Barra
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Job

• I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

  

  Bobby Keys