John Coltrane Quotes
I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.
Quotes to Explore
-
The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
-
I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
-
Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
-
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
-
When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
-
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
-
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
-
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
-
My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
-
Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
-
I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
-
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
-
The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
-
It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
-
It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
-
I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
-
We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
-
The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
-
That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
-
Marriage isn't just about two people who fit together well. It's about two people who figure out how to fit together well.
-
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
-
I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
-
The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.
-
I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.
