Matthew Shipp Quotes

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

Matthew Shipp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

StyleThinkNameBetterYouMean

I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.

Melanie Roach

FamilyChildrenDecisionMindLearn

It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food.

Robert Reich

FoodHandsYouHardCompetingFeed

Black people have, like, this thing, and I have it, we all have it, we have this kind of embarrassment. Where we don't like white people to find out our little insecurities and out little quirks. We don't really like that that much. It's kind of, we're like, 'Don't let them know - that ours; that's for us.'

Michael Che

PeopleBlackFindWhiteKnowKind

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

John Sterling

EducationBestBetterWorstThan

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Tom Robbins

EducationGrowthFulfillment

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

Mike Myers

TimePoliceMeBelieveWillCome

I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.

Mike Myers

YouWriteFirstSixtyEverything

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Lucinda Williams

SadDayTalkingSituationMoreMean

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

Louis Armstrong

SuccessMusicAgeTimeBelieveBack

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Logan Pearsall Smith

ChillGrowBodyBadMoreFragile

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Dolly Parton

I AmTalentsWhoSecureVeryAbout

There are some great songs - like, I really like 'Snowcone' and 'Whelk Then' and 'No Problem.' I think I'm dissatisfied that it's not written from start to finish; it's over a year's worth of work that doesn't correlate.

Deadmau5

WorkGreatStartThinkProblemYear

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Matthew Shipp