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.

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.

Richard Wilbur

What's lightly hid is deepest understood,

Sarah Dessen

Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.

Randy Pfitzer

I never understood why it's never come back to COS.

Michael Leunig

I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.

Kevyn Aucoin

I understood early that beauty was power.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

Julia Quinn

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Pope Francis

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?