Elvin Jones Quotes

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

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• It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.

  

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• In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

  

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• I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

  

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• A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.

  

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• Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
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• It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• Liquidity problems can occur in central clearing, even if all counterparties have the financial resources to meet their obligations, if they are unable to convert those resources into cash quickly enough.

  

  Jerome Powell
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• I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

  

  Louie Anderson
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• We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

  

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• The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

  

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• I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

  

  Aimee Bender
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• Life has an interesting way of teaching even the most powerful people that joy from wealth is fleeting at best.

  

  Anand Mahindra
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• I realize you are going to make mistakes through life. Just don't make any bad ones, you know. Like all of my records are perfect records, but I did make mistakes on them.

  

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• There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

  

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• I took classical piano for a couple of years, but I sort of lost interest - I couldn't read a note today if I tried. I still enjoy that stuff, and I think I naturally gravitate towards the classical licks; in fact, I know that I do. I gravitate towards the classical licks that I heard by famous old composers.

  

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• I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.

  

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• I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.

  

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• I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes that may hurt me commercially a little bit. But I like to cut things that have the power to speak to people on an emotional level. That's the power of country music to me.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
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• It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
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• Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
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• It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

  

  Elvin Jones
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Enjoyable