Andrew S. Gilbert Quotes
Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.
Quotes to Explore
-
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
-
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
-
Publishing is not my world.
-
The fans always tell me im beautiful but I always tell them that no one will ever be as beautiful as them
-
I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done with a project. There are always sick people.
-
Not valuing wealth prevents theft.
-
It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.
-
When I met Nathan, I told my tour manager he was too good-looking for me. I don't have a history of dating good-looking men. I've always complained that girls don't get male groupies, and now I've married the first groupie I've ever had.
-
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
-
I'm not a great singer.
-
Rich people know how to party, too.
-
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
-
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
-
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
-
To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.
-
If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.
-
I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.
-
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.
-
It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
-
I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.
-
Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.
