Ahmad Jamal Quotes
I'm a wordless storyteller, someone who cares about the dynamics of music...Musical dynamics are human dynamics.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
-
Psychiatry causes so much death.
-
Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
-
I love to write.
-
I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
-
I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
-
You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
-
Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
-
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
-
I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.
-
This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
-
People work hard.
-
Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
-
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
-
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
-
I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
-
It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
-
Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
-
Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.
-
The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
-
By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.
-
Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence.
-
I'm a wordless storyteller, someone who cares about the dynamics of music...Musical dynamics are human dynamics.
