Benny Golson Quotes

#1. The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson's band, Roy Hargrove's first band, Benny Golson's band, Benny Green's trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard's band.

Christian McBride

#2. The way to learn the language is to rip off other players. As Benny Golson told me, "We all start off sounding like other cats. And gradually, a lick here or there,we start to sound like ourselves. But it takes a long time to do so ... " That'swhat he told me, and it worked for me.

Branford Marsalis

#3. The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on the design of heaven.

Christopher Buehlman

#4. I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

Adam Driver

#5. I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

Ian McKellen

#6. God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

Francine Rivers

#7. Canada was regarded as a hostage to restrain Britain,

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.

Lewis Grizzard

#9. Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet.

Rick Fields

#10. Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#11. Do you know what it is to be really intimate, to feel safe with someone who will never betray you, will never force you to act unlike yourself? That was what we had.

James Salter

#12. I actually have two songs I did with Nicki Minaj. We didn't even plan on doing it that way, but it was an organic connection and just a really solid connection she and I had musically.

Ciara

#13. There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Fanny Fern

#15. Yeah, Killer? This is Spike. Count me out for the rumble today with the rest of the Hells' Angels. I have the sniffles and my mom won't let me out of the house...

Bill Bernico

#16. Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.

Art Buchwald