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Gerald Clayton Quotes

When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences, or music, that somebody's been exposed to. But that's an individual thing; there's no sort of universal understanding of what jazz is.

Gerald Clayton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 11, 1984

Topics

Music Understanding Jazz Individual

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

Joan Didion

People Leaving California Everything

I shake everybody's hand before the game, but Oklahoma City, they don't shake hands. Only some of them, but I don't think they really shake hands before the game.

Metta World Peace

City Game Think Hands Hand Oklahoma

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

John Shirley

Great Doctor Care Sometimes Company

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

Amity Shlaes

People Perception Believe Think Kind

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

Sonny Rollins

Musicians Long You Never Tell Been

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

Rosalia de Castro

Great Always Followed Breakthroughs

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

People Control Win Think Trying

Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

Louis R. Chenevert

Leadership Business Great Balance

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Man Pain Become More First Pleasure

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

Josh Hawley

Law Human Trafficking Mockery Makes

I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Life Relationship Job My Life Hand

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift

Nature Ambition Short Said Little