Nicholas Payton Quotes

Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.

Nicholas Payton

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• I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

  

  Jack Chick
  • Taken
  • Picture
  • Hit

• When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Hit

• Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Single
  • Reason
  • Note

• Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Up
  • Read
  • Here

• Now that I'm famous, guys don't hit on me.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Famous
  • Guys
  • Hit

• He can hit the ball out of the park anywhere, probably out of the Grand Canyon.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Ball
  • Hit
  • Park

• Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

  

  Aristotle
  • High
  • Problem
  • Aim

• True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lies
  • Note
  • True Art

• We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Come Out
  • Overcoat

• One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Working
  • Hit
  • Distinctions

• The beauty of the band was you never knew what was going to come out next.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Band
  • Beauty
  • Next

• You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.

  

  Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Note

• Use half as many words and they'll hit twice as hard.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Words
  • Use
  • Hit

• I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way.

  

  Annie E. Clark
  • Person
  • Lucky
  • Come Out

• Drosnin's 'The Bible Code' would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Hit
  • Mentioning
  • Bible Code

• We did the very best we could. Something good has got to come out of it somewhere.

  

  Anita Stansfield
  • Good
  • Best
  • Come Out

• Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Style
  • Sad
  • Hit

• I can't stand squealers, hit that guy!

  

  Albert Anastasia
  • Hit
  • Squealers

• Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there Wimbledon. When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Sleep
  • Ball
  • Hit

• I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Brother

• I always think of moments of love with someone I love.

  

  Gaspar Noe
  • Love
  • Think
  • Moments

• I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.

  

  Nicholas Payton
  • Hit
  • Note
  • Come Out