Ray Conniff Quotes
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
-
I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
-
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
-
I do think one should have clean feet.
-
God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
-
I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
-
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
-
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
-
People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
-
I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
-
I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
-
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
-
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
-
Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.
-
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…
-
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
-
My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.
-
Considering what a prolific writer Dickens was, the word 'Dickensian' could legitimately cover a vast thematic territory, explaining at least some of the variety of its applications.
-
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
-
I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.
-
Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
-
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
-
People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
-
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.
