Abbey Lincoln Quotes

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • War
  • Evil
  • Justice

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Create
  • Dangerous

• I worry about every newspaper. I worry about the financial undertaking, and I worry that somehow the loss of the sale of the paper version will affect their ability to have journalists and editors and producers. We really need those.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Worry
  • Financial

• Cara's always been a real tomboy. She was never really that into makeup. She's very quick at it.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Real
  • She
  • Makeup

• When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

  

  Elizabeth Arden
  • Beautiful

• We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
  • Writing
  • Business

• My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • People
  • Music

• So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone And defecating on your microphone.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Imitate
  • Al Capone
  • Nina Simone

• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Search
  • Questions

• Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Daily
  • Planning

• Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Social
  • Love Is
  • Instrument

• Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Great
  • Why
  • Acting

• Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Good
  • Real
  • Instrument

• Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Death
  • Control

• It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Envy
  • Imitate

• The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

  

  Plato
  • Instrument
  • Flute
  • Moral Effect

• Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Mission
  • Disappear
  • Instrument

• He was Caesar and Pope in o­ne; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports.

  

  Benjamin Smith
  • Instrument
  • Supports
  • Caesar

• We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior, and therefore not to be folded up in the napkin of an implicate faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, peace, and true religion. For though there be many things in God's Word above Reason--that is to say, which cannot by natural reason be either demonstrated or confuted--yet there is nothing contrary to it.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • God
  • Experience
  • Faith

• In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • People
  • Words
  • Forget

• I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Instrument
  • Imitate