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Sonny Rollins Quotes

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

Sonny Rollins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 7, 1930

Topics

Music American Admit Person Real

What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.

Jerry Lewis

Lost Young Now Need Little Seem

The summer after college, I got a job as a chef at Conscience Point Inn in Southampton. I spent the summer on the water and cemented my expertise with seafood. I've always gravitated toward places that do seafood.

Andrew Zimmern

Water Job College Chef Summer Point

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

Maya Angelou

Courage Mirror Light Understanding

The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the '60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.

Robert Picardo

Me Artist Hand Follow Movement Nuts

I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

Amy Klobuchar

Parents Saying Loved Remember You

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

Stanley Tucci

Night Things Big Both Wrote

I grew up in Hollywood. My father always told me that this is a job. These events are filled with people you work with; it's not like glam-schmooze time. That's why I only like events that celebrate people I have a connection to; otherwise, it's someone else's night, and I don't need to show up in a dress to try and steal their attention.

Troian Bellisario

Work Father Time Job Dress People

Nothing could do more to help the world's poor than to make fossil fuels cheap and plentiful.

Robert Zubrin

World Help Nothing Poor More Cheap

With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

Jason Blum

Stars Story You Horror Need Just

I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

Joseph Bruchac

Reading Discovery First Recall Began

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

William Kingdon Clifford

Simple Enough Same Rule Us Obvious

As Ohio's working families continue to recover from the worst economic recession in our country's history, we need a president who's committed to growing our economy by lifting up the middle class.

Sherrod Brown

History Country Growing Class Worst