Stan Getz Quotes
The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody
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I love dressing up.
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I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.
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By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
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The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.
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You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.
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I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.
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My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.
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I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.
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Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.
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It takes away a lot of the thrill of killing yourself when people are looking for you and you're disappointing them, because it is a lot of fun when you're out there killing yourself.
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The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.
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That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
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If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.
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The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.
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The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it’s still a melody
