Mel Torme Quotes

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

Mel Torme

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I myself am a former commando fighter.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Myself
  • Fighter
  • Am

• Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • You
  • Play
  • Write

• I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Earnest

• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Own
  • Run
  • Soviet

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God
  • Job
  • America

• I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Technology

• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Same

• Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Age
  • Colonial

• Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Prosperity
  • Rather
  • Divide

• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Music
  • They Say

• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Think
  • Just

• The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.

  

  Gary Locke
  • World
  • Why
  • America

• The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Peace

• My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Video Games

• I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Believe
  • Home
  • Period

• Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.

  

  John Wesley
  • God
  • Children
  • Heart

• If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • May
  • Faith
  • Broken

• This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • People
  • Professional

• I'm not someone so much interested in exploring a slice of life unless that is down the corridor, around the corner, up the alley, and down the rabbit hole. That, I like.

  

  James Spader
  • Life
  • Up

• As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

  

  Mel Torme