Gene Lees Quotes
I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.
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I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.
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I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.
