Paul Desmond Quotes

I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness.

Paul Desmond

• Player
• Prize
• Quietness

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • People
  • Book
  • King

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Like
  • First
  • Rich

• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Thinking
  • Matter
  • Thing

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Real
  • Lives
  • Little

• I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Engagement

• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Reality
  • Moment
  • Process

• Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Moon

• Pay attention to how we move things

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Attention

• Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• I am the luckiest guy I know.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Guy

• I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Age

• What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • America

• I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Player

• Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Player

• We were always skating on thin ice, Shaking the wrong dice, Swimming against the tide, Playing on the wrong side, Yes you were the player, and you were so cool, I was the greenhorn, King of the fools, Painting the picture, to fit with the frame, Chan.

  

  Keith Reid Procol Harum
  • Player
  • King
  • Skating

• Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Control

• I have won several prizes as the world’s slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness.

  

  Paul Desmond
  • Player
  • Prize
  • Quietness