Top 18 Bob Brookmeyer Quotes
#2. The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.
Joni Mitchell
#3. It's a difference between want and should, isn't it?" "Yes. You should do what you want.
Jamie McGuire
#4. It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.
Mitch McConnell
#5. I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
Floyd Abrams
#6. The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
Toni Collette
#7. One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#8. This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
Bob Brookmeyer
#9. A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy ... all the things that humans have.
Bob Brookmeyer
#10. A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#11. I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.
Brett Favre
#12. Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.
Bob Brookmeyer
#13. Practically raised by wolves, we had joked. The monster and the metaphor, and the way they match up that makes the double-edged word of wit. And then you realize what your words have done, and you weep because you're both bleeding.
Kat Howard
#14. Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas
Natasha Tsakos
#15. When life moves you, move with it; do not place roadblocks of judgment or fear. Your fear and judgment are roadblocks on the easy path that life has chosen for you. Fear is an illusion and it is bondage. When you understand that all is good; you can live in Freedom.
Premlatha Rajkumar
#16. A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen
Bob Brookmeyer
#17. I'm flattered anytime someone has taken enough time to listen to me and make a connection to someone else, honestly.
Charlie Worsham
#18. I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.
Benjamin Jealous
