Benny Carter Quotes
It Strayhorn's Compositions made us all think a little differently about what we were doing.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
-
Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
-
I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
-
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
-
You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
-
Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
-
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
-
I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
-
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
-
What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
-
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
-
I have made that one of my policies never to play anything that I've already put on record.
-
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
-
A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
-
We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
-
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
-
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
-
Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
-
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
-
I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.
-
Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
-
Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
-
I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
-
It Strayhorn's Compositions made us all think a little differently about what we were doing.
