Paul Shaffer Quotes

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Paul Shaffer

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MusicLearnPlayWantBassOnly

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

Joanna Scott

ArtRealityUnderstandRepresentation

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

Sonny Bono

LovePeopleEnvironmentRatAbove

Music-wise, I like anything with a beat to it. With walkout songs, I pick something to keep me going and to rile me up.

Stipe Miocic

MeUpAnythingBeatSomethingGoing

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

Steve Vai

LifeTodayBalanceSpiritualAchieve

The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.

Toni Tennille

PeoplePinkSurpriseWallBackground

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

Lucinda Franks

LoveMenWiseBabySweetNight

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

Judy Holliday

GoodPerformanceNobodyGiveFact

People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.

Dimitar Sasselov

LifeAlonePeopleThinkUniverse

I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part.

Chris D'Elia

PeopleStorySomeonePlayGoMean

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

Cory Booker

CollegeBlindMeetingDevelopment

In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.

Box Brown

LifeBestCircumstancesExtraordinary

When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me.

Alice Barrett

TimeSupportAmazingMeTouchFans

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