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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • People
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• I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Alone

• To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• 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.

  

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

  

  Gary Sheffield
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  • 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.

  

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• If the banks become unreliable lenders, apartment prices will drop dramatically.

  

  Harry Triguboff
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• For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Things
  • Activity

• I think it's very cool for the drummer to be set free from having to worry about holding down the beat every once in a while, though it's a little constricting.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Worry
  • Beat
  • Drummer

• Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

  

  Hartley William Shawcross
  • Criticising

• 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