Woody Shaw Quotes

I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible.

Woody Shaw

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Up
  • Good
  • Guy

• As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Unity

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
  • Religion
  • More

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Black

• For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• …if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • May
  • History

• All that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Long
  • Trying

• Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Good
  • Wine

• I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • Style

• I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Disney
  • Princess

• 'Teenage Dream' was the most difficult song I've ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn't get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Different
  • Dream
  • Song

• Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.

  

  Bob Taft
  • People

• I grew up in southern Sudan, one of nine children. Our life was simple but very happy.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Experience
  • History
  • Alone

• I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Voices

• It's so easy to look forward when you're travelling; you spend your life looking forward, thinking, 'What's next? When do I get time to work on my music again? Or when do I get time to get my 'normal' life back?'

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible.

  

  Woody Shaw
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Color