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Saxophonist Inspirational Quotes (2223)

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I want a girl who looks good when she wakes up in the morning. We could take her face and dip it in dough and she'll make some nice-face cookies. Some girls wake up, man, you could put their face in dough and you'll get a gorilla cookie, for real!
Flavor Flav
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We all played bad before we played good.
Branford Marsalis
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One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must have seen for years. The billboard advertising cigars, Dutch Masters. I realized it was sort of perfect. It's weird isn't it? You're looking at Rembrandt - in neon! It was too much, it was irresistible.
Larry Rivers
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The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.
Joseph Jarman
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I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.
Femi Kuti
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It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
Ray Charles
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It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.
Ornette Coleman
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Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.
John Coltrane
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If you can sing it, you can play it.
Jackie McLean
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There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.
Van Morrison
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Those who live by the Qur'an have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews... it teaches that very clearly.
John Hagee
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Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.
PJ Harvey
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Ornette Coleman
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J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.
Van Morrison
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Man, there's no boundary line to art!
Charlie Parker
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I like to play things that people understand, or maybe tunes that they could recognize. And so — I play for the people, just as much as for myself. Because, as I say, I still like to play.
Ben Webster
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I hold death in my pouch, I cannot die.
Fela Kuti
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The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.
Artie Shaw
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We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.
Ray Charles
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When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.
Howard Shore
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Wayne Shorter
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To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.
Wayne Shorter
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In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played. There's no one out there like Gretchen.
Wayne Shorter
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