Terry Teachout Quotes

Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1956

Topics

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For me, it was always just taking the next opportunity to sing in front of someone and always trying to take those strides forward to find a place to sing, to make a music career. It was small increments, but I always knew that I had to take the next opportunity.

Jimi Westbrook

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I don't want to be no more than what I am.

Joe Frazier

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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.

Anjelica Huston

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Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

Rue McClanahan

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I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

Johnny Ramone

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I have this old-man character named Glary Oldman. His apartment was on fire, but he was stubborn about leaving because he didn't want to leave all his stuff. I have a character called Berle, who lost 19 pounds, and now he's 600 pounds and very happy about it.

Bobby Moynihan

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There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's.

Peter Hook

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Everyone is super creative in the family.

Noah Cyrus

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I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.

Marshall Curry

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I remember when I was in the Middle East, Yasser Arafat used to go to Bahrain and Qatar on a Thursday and then go to Saudi Arabia and get his financial help on a Saturday.

Leon Charney

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