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Maynard Ferguson Quotes

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

Maynard Ferguson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: May 4, 1928 - August 23, 2006

Topics

Change Music Jazz Always Wonderful

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.

Life Community Reflection School

Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.

Angela Ahrendts

Language Remember Universal Spoken

The piano is an instrument that can easily sound overly thick, and I love to think that I can work with textures - particularly the inner textures inside the melody or the bass line. There is an analogy there with painting; I love paintings where you see colour underneath the colour and, underneath that, more texture and shape.

Work Love Painting Think You I Can

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

History People Strong Coincidence

I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

Roy Lichtenstein

Art Think Down Serious Important

A lot of times, the inspiration for a novel is a messy bird's nest of shiny things. Little things that don't make a whole lot of sense or that, no matter how hard you look, cannot be found directly in the finished book.

Bird Little Things Book You Look

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

Death Talking Traveled Discouraged

The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.

Daughter Great Food Summer Wood Out

The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward.

Peace Poetry City Building Forward

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.

Father Football Me Game Career Way

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Adventure War Like Disease Typhus

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Focus Politics Think Political You

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