Wynton Marsalis Quotes

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

Wynton Marsalis

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MusicStartYouLoseFlexibility

I don't do carrots.

John Bolton

Carrots

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

EnoughThroughSocialWhereWriter

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality.

Siri Hustvedt

DreamsBelieveRealityAcceptEvents

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

Tony Abbott

LifeMarriageWomanManThinkKnow

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Robert Fripp

MusicLanguageViewPoint Of View

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

Mike Farrell

TrustPeopleSayingFinancialKind

I thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.

Michelle Yeoh

GoodEnjoyLuxuryBathHotUltimate

What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

Douglas Booth

PeopleEverythingUpAnythingGet

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

Brian Jacques

GoodTeacherBirdTalentWriting

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Chuck Palahniuk

GunInvisibleSmilesEveryoneHead

It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

GreatYouMakeTournamentConditions

When you're on film or TV, essentially you're in front of the camera. Unless it's a Tim Burton thing, the desire is to be real and grounded.

Thomas Middleditch

CameraYouDesireRealBe RealFilm

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