Beiderbecke Quotes

#1. We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.

Frances Moore Lappe

#2. I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Jeff Tweedy

#3. Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

Eddie Condon

#4. Why do you fight it?" I whisper.
"Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

N. Michaels

#5. There are choices to be made...beware you do not make the wrong one.

Laken Cane

#6. One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

Bix Beiderbecke

#7. If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

John Wooden

#8. I'd go to hell to hear a good band.

Bix Beiderbecke

#9. Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance.

Bahman Solati

#10. English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.

Pete Townshend

#11. The mortals don't realize they are funding the Amazon kingdom. Soon, we'll be richer than any mortal nation. Then - when the weak mortals depend on us for everything - the revolution will begin!" "What are you going to do?" Frank grumbled. "Cancel free shipping?

Rick Riordan

#12. Perfection only happens when one has both faith and gnosis.

Karim El Koussa

#13. One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

Robert Shea

#14. The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

Bix Beiderbecke

#15. A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.

Mitch Hedberg

#16. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#17. I rock because sometimes I'm scared and that's alright. I rock because I'm not afraid to cry. I rock because I'm loved and I'm able to love. I rock ... I rock.

Anika Noni Rose

#18. A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

#19. What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Thomas Carlyle