Elvin Jones Quotes

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

Elvin Jones

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• I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Singing
  • Better
  • Miserable

• Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • You
  • Front

• When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Why
  • Change
  • Focus

• My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Green

• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Good
  • Why
  • Door

• Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Control

• People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • People
  • True
  • Simple

• I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Money
  • Love
  • Single

• I felt it (tighten) when I first took off and I tried to slow down,

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Relax
  • Slow Down

• I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Waiting

• Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • Childhood

• I hate sports. My reaction to the ball is this [kicks soccer ball] Don't kick it back to me. I don't wanna see it again.

  

  Steven Jay Page Barenaked Ladies
  • Hate
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Girl
  • Albums
  • Seductive

• No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Ideas
  • Islam
  • Scrutinize

• I have a confession to make. Almost every time I tune in to religious radio or TV, I want to change my religion.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • TV
  • Confession
  • Religious radio

• I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Artist

• There are many ways to relax a problem, and we’ve seen three of the most important. The first, Constraint Relaxation, simply removes some constraints altogether and makes progress on a looser form of the problem before coming back to reality. The second, Continuous Relaxation, turns discrete or binary choices into continua: when deciding between iced tea and lemonade, first imagine a 50–50 “Arnold Palmer” blend and then round it up or down. The third, Lagrangian Relaxation, turns impossibilities into mere penalties, teaching the art of bending the rules..

  

  Brian Christian
  • Art
  • Problem
  • Rules

• That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

  

  Elvin Jones
  • Supposed
  • Drummer
  • Essential