Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esperanza Spalding

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Lionel Richie

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..

David Pierce

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Claude Nobs

I was working in the local tourist office and I said to the manager, 'We should do something to make Montreux known in America. Let's do a jazz festival!

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

Robert Quine

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Van Morrison

I just can't stand it [ jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Wynton Marsalis

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

Dexter Gordon

Jazz to me is a living music.

David Sanborn

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Vladimir Putin

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Frank Galati

I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

Chris Cornell

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.