Mose Allison Quotes

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

Mose Allison

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• I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Different
  • Want

• These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Shadow
  • Over
  • Fast

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I love doing serious movies for adults.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Movies

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Love
  • Singing
  • Grew

• Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Red
  • New
  • Modesty

• Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)

  

  Aristophanes
  • High
  • Thoughts

• There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Power

• We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • Great

• I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Pink

• Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

  

  David Guetta
  • Good
  • Music
  • Job

• I have always been fascinated by fashion. I never had any interest in waiting tables or bar-tending, so retail was sort of my best option.

  

  Brandon Uranowitz
  • Fashion
  • Waiting
  • Option

• It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Earth
  • Perspective
  • Bird

• Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Life
  • Great

• Many businesses in Yorkshire want the security and stability of Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a cause I look forward to championing passionately in this place and elsewhere.

  

  Jo Cox

• For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

  

  Anohni
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Magic

• Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as healing of the body.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Important
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Player
  • Period

• You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.

  

  Keith Morris Black Flag
  • Party
  • Player
  • Bass

• I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all.

  

  Chase Utley
  • World
  • Guy
  • Player

• All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

  

  Mose Allison
  • Player
  • Jazz
  • Classic