Ray Brown Quotes

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

Ray Brown

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• Something
• Musician
• Rehearsals

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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Like
  • Something
  • Voiceover

• I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Something
  • More
  • Delicious

• I'm just a musician and a record producer.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Just
  • Musician
  • Producer

• I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Like
  • Something
  • Say

• I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Doing
  • Something
  • Rather

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Practice

• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Something
  • Sexy
  • Inside

• Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Practice
  • Service

• I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Life
  • Live
  • Musician

• Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Waiting
  • Something
  • Happen

• We've written something like 900 songs in all.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Something

• I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

  

  Vijay
  • Practice
  • Enjoy
  • Dancing

• I used to practice Wicca.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Practice

• A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Law
  • Practice

• Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

  

  David Liss
  • Time
  • Power
  • Forever

• Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • World
  • Moments
  • Practice

• Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Live
  • Together

• I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation. Those animation talents are hysterical. They're so good, and they're so amazingly quick on their feet.

  

  Amy Hill
  • Good
  • Fun

• Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Heart
  • May

• Sometimes people say, 'Oh, you're doing better now than before the accident.'That irritates the hell out of me.

  

  Mike Schultz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Before

• We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

  

  Ray Brown
  • Practice
  • Something
  • Musician