Ahmad Jamal Quotes

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

Ahmad Jamal

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• If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • America
  • Politics
  • Personal

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Why
  • Song

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Night
  • Man

• I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Earth
  • Planets
  • Aliens

• It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Think
  • Myself
  • I Think

• Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • High
  • Way
  • Bar

• A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Universe

• If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Respect
  • Fashion

• My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Father
  • Name

• The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Time
  • History
  • Best

• My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Style

• The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Evil

• Remember...Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Remember
  • Bring Down

• There's a lot of people on the way up who want to take my place, so it's up to me to continue to improve.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • People
  • Up

• Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Up
  • Home
  • Energy

• Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

  

  Ahmad Jamal
  • Practice
  • Jazz
  • Means