Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Van Morrison

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.

Robert Glasper

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Wynton Marsalis

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Keira Knightley

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

Chamberlain Oguchi

I was looking for my shot early and they were leaving me open. It's a certain way they play defense, and I wanted to get us going.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

David Hawkins

I wouldn't say it's unusual. In terms of moving from one institution to another, if Richard felt like it was time for change, it certainly seems like a logical move to make.

Jeff Kelly

I would say that the omission is certainly damaging to us.

Jason Chaffetz

I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates.

Tony Russa

Just look at him, he's in great shape. I don't know if he's more excited than he's ever been, but certainly he's not any less. I think he's high quality.

Jon Gruden

(Jones) has done primarily punt returns, but if pressed into service we'll trust that he'll do the job if he's the guy we choose to go with. He (Pittman) has worked on that throughout his career. Once again, when certain things happen you have to have contingency plans in place. We'll work on our contigency plan throughout this week and we'll find somebody who gives us a chance to hopefully return one for a touchdown.

Bill Cowher

Joey's comments at the end of the game were certainly made out of frustration. But there's no conspiracy or things of that nature. That's ridiculous.