Peabo Bryson Quotes

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

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• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Up
  • God
  • Truth

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Age
  • Youth

• When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Soul
  • Eye
  • Train

• Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Day
  • Find
  • Everyday

• I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• My music lives because of real players.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Real
  • Players

• There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thinking

• Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Life
  • Funeral

• Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Life
  • Rest

• Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Racism

• It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach
  • Black
  • Mistake

• Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Help

• I do walk with a bit of a swagger. I do swear a lot. And people are going to be offended by that. But in this PC world, you can't be honest.

  

  Danny Dyer
  • People
  • World

• I've tried every context imaginable, but the trio is the most demanding. It's very difficult to get an orchestral sound out the trio, but we do because I think orchestrally. The trio allows me a lot of space. I can play solo piano, duets with the bassist, drums and piano. Playing at optimum level is the challenge. What's necessary for me is establishing a meaningful statement musically; and my experiences dictate certain musical utterances; and my training and inherent sense of judgment all feed into this. I already know what is happening before I reach the bandstand ninety per cent of the time. The value lies in my skill to interpret a song. It may go better than I planned, in some instances, but it's not going to go any worse

  

  Ahmad Jamal
  • Difficult
  • Sound
  • Trio

• A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
  • House
  • Tradition
  • Synthesis

• If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

  

  Peabo Bryson