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

• Practice
• 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

• When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Practice
  • Thoughts
  • Memories

• When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Practice
  • Yourself

• 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

• Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Quality

• 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
  • Sexy
  • Something
  • Inside

• I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

  

  Fleur East
  • Practice
  • Mirror
  • Autograph

• 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

• To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Practice
  • Magic
  • Sage

• I thought Out of Action was better as a catalogue than the honeycomb because the honeycomb was like walking into one compartment and then another compartment.

  

  Richard Serra
  • Thought
  • Because
  • Another

• I shoot swimsuits and lingerie all the time, so I want to make sure I'm in the best shape. It makes me want to work out harder than usual.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • Work
  • Shape
  • Shoot

• I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Important
  • Family
  • Education

• For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • Understanding
  • Accomplishment

• 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