Jan Garbarek Quotes

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Jan Garbarek

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Group

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • You
  • Conservative

• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Lost

• The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Opportunity
  • Present
  • Problems

• I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Year
  • More

• I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Experience
  • Job
  • Hand

• I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Small

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wall

• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Original

• Now is the age of anxiety.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Age
  • Anxiety

• Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Job
  • High

• We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Country
  • Think
  • Investment

• I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Give

• I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Dance

• Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Office

• Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • People
  • World
  • Understanding

• All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

  

  Mark Romanek
  • Movie

• I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Poetry

• Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Music
  • Song
  • Singing

• There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its malignity, would always terrify them. Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become more liberal.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

  

  Jan Garbarek