Albert Murray Quotes

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

Albert Murray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1916 - August 18, 2013

Topics

SongAmericanBluesJazzComposition

I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.

Russell Smith

I AmWorldSickWayMoreImprove

By the time my children are born, I know it's possible that they can grow up in a world where they don't understand that there were ever any dividers between people and why we have the issues we do today. That's my goal in this life.

Jason Mraz

LifeTodayChildrenTimePeople

I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.

Jon Fishman

LifePositiveAttitudeMusicFight

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Denzel Washington

DailyThinkLearnSomeoneYouSee

I've always been on the side of fully emancipated women with independent minds.

Diana Rigg

WomenIndependentMindsAlwaysSide

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

David Sylvian

PeopleMeMusiciansEnoughDownAsk

A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes.

Christian Louboutin

GoodBeautifulShoesFaceMaskYou

Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to drive me to the rink before school and then drive me to practice after school - it's a huge commitment for any family.

Allison Janney

FamilyMorningMyselfCommitmentMe

I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.

Alice Englert

PeopleThinkActingFilmmakingYoung

When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.

Wilson Cruz

LifeEducationSuccessTimeThink

Motorcycle garb is the way I looked to Warhol. Then came the Armani suits.

Peter Marino

MotorcycleSuitsWayThenCame

I want to have roles in English.

Paz Vega

WantEnglishRoles

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