Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Coltrane

says Jackson. ''It's a major part of our cultural landscape. Football comes in the fall, and so does the Coltrane concert.

Kim Gordon

I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.

Herbie Hancock

As the 1960s began, jazz music was still at an apex, with hard bop groups led by the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane remaining a force on the musical landscape.

Alex Clare

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Sean Maguire

For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Sue Hershey

We talked a lot about how that region grew and how students were recruited. We need to be ready to train a workforce for these jobs.

Mirek Porosa

When he settled down, his volleyball level just grew tremendously.

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.

Ethan Iverson

I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing.

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

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

Van Morrison

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

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.

Van Morrison

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Diane Brown

John cooks, that is the arrangement, ... John's a wonderful cook.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

John Edward

John Kerry has what it takes ... to be president of the United States,

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Jarrius Jackson

He did his job. He prepared us. He did a lot more teaching this year because we were a young team. We have to listen more and do our job.

Rudi Johnson

He listens to what I tell him to do.

Taylor Momsen

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

Daniel Woodrell

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

Walter Pater

He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men

Roy Johnson

I think it should never have been listed in the first place,

Kim Gandy

We told him what he needed to hear. And I think our messages were received. The vice president shared some of his ideas, listened to ours and offered to have an ongoing dialogue.

Brian Humke

I think we want to listen to what people say; that's our job.

Walter Pater

He seemed to those about him as one listening to a voice, silent for other men

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Reid Scott

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

Richard Gere

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Rivers Cuomo

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

Richard L. Evans

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Tori Amos

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

Tori Amos

When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Martin Winterkorn

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

John Catsimatidis

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

Ben Bernanke

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Marilyn Tam

They told me something very interesting, they promote on merit. What a refreshing idea.

Ciaran Hinds

I've never traveled to promote anything I've been in. I've only been to about two or three premieres. The way I work, I do bits, and then I'm off to something else, whether it's theater or another project.

Karine Vanasse

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Roger Scruton

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

Todd Hollenshead

In the movie, there's a little more subtlety of where they come from, ... Do they actually come from within us and how?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Ruth Ginsburg

What is subtle about what is described here?

Michael Schudson

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Pat Conroy

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Johnny Depp

I wouldn't say I'm a heart-throb. I just have a weird job.

Tucker Max

Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.

Patricia Arquette

It was like being in a weird dream.

Natsuo Kirino

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

Joe Simpson

It's not surprising. But it's going to be weird not working all of those games.

Lindsay Martin

It's a weird feeling. I'm still in shock.

Mike Mills

The whole set was very intense, ... Lou and Kelli have some weird thing with each other.

Aaron Eckhart

We always feel threatened by things we don't know. But, there are definitely some weird things going on.