Christian McBride Quotes

Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.

Christian McBride

• Music
• Everyone
• Jazz

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• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Home
  • Small

• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Looking

• I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Happy
  • Needs

• It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Play
  • Violence
  • Suffering

• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Free
  • Earth

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Only

• Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
  • Work
  • Daily

• I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Story
  • Down

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Fight
  • Now
  • Foot

• I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • People
  • Song
  • Fashion

• Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Great
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• The truth.. is limitless in its range, If you drop a 'T' and look at it in reverse it could hurt

  

  Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
  • Truth
  • Hurt

• First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Literature

• I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Fear

• The Yankees are my team.

  

  Mark Consuelos
  • Team

• There are a lot of Latinos who believe that allowing illegal immigrants to cut in front of the line ahead of those pursuing the legal path sends the wrong signal. The GOP needs to articulate that message respectfully but boldly.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Believe
  • Path

• Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

  

  Anna Jameson
  • Truth

• I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Life
  • God
  • Thankful

• I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music in the '40s, '50s, '60s. Then I've got all the '80s stuff underground, hip-hop when hip-hop really first started. The '90s stuff. All of the good stuff, because I'm really into music, and it helps me create new songs now.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now.

  

  Brian Austin Green
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Any time, as an athlete, you taste victory, you taste the top of the mountain, you want to get there again.

  

  Dell Curry
  • Time
  • Victory
  • Mountain

• Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well.

  

  Christian McBride
  • Music
  • Everyone
  • Jazz