Art Farmer Quotes
Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
-
I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
-
I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
-
Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
-
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
-
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
-
I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.
-
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
-
I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
-
I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
-
I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.
-
A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial. about 1958, text on a bill for selling 'air'
-
I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.
-
We really shouldn't be putting a label on size. Fashion is for all, and I think confidence and happiness is more important than dress labels.
-
I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.
-
But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.
-
I've been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.
-
When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!
-
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
-
There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
-
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
-
He's pretty darned good. I think he's as good as anyone in the county.
-
Remember that the person requesting your help may feel uncomfortable, so make sure to ask what the client really wants and how you can best help.
-
Economy: that what you played had to have meaning, not just a bunch of sixteenth notes. You learn to make better choices of notes as you get older.
