Bob Brookmeyer Quotes
A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen.
Bob Brookmeyer
Quotes to Explore
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When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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I don't have many easy songs.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.
Iggy Pop
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The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!
Camren Bicondova
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
Nancy Sinatra
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I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.
Harry Styles
One Direction
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Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.
Rachel Carson
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I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.
Kevin Spacey
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A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen.
Bob Brookmeyer