Jerry Saltz Quotes
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
-
My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
-
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
-
You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
-
I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
-
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
-
I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.
-
People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
-
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
-
No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
-
A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
-
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
-
I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
-
About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
-
I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
-
I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
-
I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.
-
I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
-
I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it's a means to help free a lot of people that ain't free.
-
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
-
I think being a little older and a little more determined and being a little more evolved in my case and maturity in the kind of music I was doing and how I was doing it really helped to keep me grounded and with an audience that could appreciate what I was doing, who grew with me and evolved with me and kept me alive and around.
-
Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.
-
I would do these performances around town at different places, and that's when I really fell in love with performing, and I knew this was something that stood me up and filled me in a way that nothing had and nothing could. I really just fell in love with it.
-
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
