Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chico Hamilton

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chick Corea

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.

Chick Corea

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Charles Spurgeon

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Charles Spurgeon

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Charles Spurgeon

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

Charles Spurgeon

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

Al Ries

Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.

Al Pacino

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

Al Pacino

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

Al Pacino

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

Al Lewis

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

Akshay Kumar

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.