Buddy DeFranco Quotes

When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.

Buddy DeFranco

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• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Think
  • Way
  • Singing

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Up
  • Team
  • Sports

• I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Money
  • City
  • Library

• Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Power
  • Stealing
  • Few

• I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • History
  • Today

• While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Important
  • Long
  • Success

• I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fancies

• I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Power

• I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Family
  • Said

• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • House
  • You

• Finishing is one of the most difficult things to do in cricket. A player can't be a finisher in just 6 months or one year. You have to be used to that responsibility, keeping on doing what is required from you over a period of time.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Player

• I don't believe in the afterlife.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Believe
  • Afterlife

• Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Servant
  • Treacherous

• In situations like that, you're really unsure about how you're going to perform, but once I got out there (I was OK), ... Believe me, I've been doing this since I was 6 years old. It's nothing. This is what I do. This is what I get paid to do.

  

  Corey Dillon
  • Get
  • Paid
  • What

• This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.

  

  Ed Murray
  • Opportunity
  • Change
  • Environmental

• [The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • World
  • Running
  • Musical

• When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.

  

  Buddy DeFranco