Stan Getz Quotes
You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
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I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
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I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
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We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
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When did a name ever change what someone is?
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You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.
