Elvin Jones Quotes

To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

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• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • Very
  • I Can

• I think, for me, winning opens doors to all types of shapes and sizes and genres to come on the show and kill it. I'm probably the antithesis of what American Idols have been.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • American
  • Me
  • Winning

• Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Remember
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Love
  • Limit
  • Comes

• Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • Work

• It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Lost

• I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Up
  • Past
  • Memories

• Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • People

• With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • Book
  • American
  • War

• Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false.

  

  Connie Chung
  • Attention
  • Husband
  • Ignore

• Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Habit

• The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Army

• As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Work
  • Know
  • Wait

• Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the Food Club, so we have to wear the captains' hats.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Food
  • Couple

• The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Memory

• We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Angel
  • Mankind

• Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.

  

  John Calvin
  • Angel
  • Salvation
  • Faithful

• To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

  

  Elvin Jones
  • Angel
  • Struck