Michael Parkinson Quotes

In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

Michael Parkinson

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• But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Learn

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Business
  • Growth

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who 'took it to heart.' What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Three

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Ear

• It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Mistake
  • Hero

• I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Women
  • Nature

• I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.

  

  M. K. Hobson

• Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Alone

• Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • Done
  • Words

• We have a lot of great hospitals in America, across the country.

  

  James Lankford
  • Great
  • Country
  • America

• My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!

  

  Blake Lively
  • Great
  • Dad

• Kristen Bell is one of my best friends. I've had the pleasure of working with some really great people, and Kristen is just a beautiful, talented young lady.

  

  Chris Lowell
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Power
  • Change

• In my view a jazz musician is a great musician

  

  Michael Parkinson
  • Great
  • Musician
  • Jazz