Benjamin Tennikoff Quotes
Late nights on late nights making lots of music with this guys amongst many greats.
Quotes to Explore
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket.
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Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.
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I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.
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There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.
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'Mud' was a depository for a little more nostalgia and just a different kind of feeling, a different kind of mood. Something that's not so dark. Something that does actually have a happy ending and is a little more hopeful.
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Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
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I'm not a mean person.
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I was born in our Chembur house in Mumbai, where we lived for five years after which we shifted to our Lokhandwala house.
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We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.
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Late nights on late nights making lots of music with this guys amongst many greats.
