Top 32 Chico Hamilton Quotes
#1. The message of 'Zomb-B' is that you have to listen to your own heart and head and question everything. Question stereotypes and the way the world seems or is being presented. Some of the people we should be most concerned about, dangerous right-wing bigots, sound convincing and reasonable.
Darren Shan
#2. You ask me some questions
And I give you some answers
But nothing that would make you understand.
David Levithan
#3. A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.
Chico Hamilton
#4. Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people.
Chico Hamilton
#5. The health care problem is not solved in the white house, its solved in YOUR HOUSE
Tony Horton
#6. In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.
Chico Hamilton
#7. I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.
Chico Hamilton
#8. Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.
Chico Hamilton
#9. The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.
Chico Hamilton
#10. You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot," I blurted out. "But I always knew you would be." my eyes widened as I realize what just streamed out of my mouth, and his grin to turn into a smile. "Oh my God, I did not just say ... any of that out loud."
"you did"
"Ugh.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#12. I have less friends, but I have more Cadbury Eggs.
Greg Behrendt
#13. Most people don't think past themselves. I know that. But I want Vera to see other people. To respect other people. To realize that the whole world is not here for her. I want her to see her duty to the world, not the other way around.
A.S. King
#14. I'm for the fracking. I think it's an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.
Mike DeWine
#15. At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.
Chico Hamilton
#16. I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
Larry Kramer
#17. I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.
Chico Hamilton
#18. I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
Oscar Wilde
#19. I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe
Bob Dylan
#20. The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.
Brian Eno
#21. For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.
Donnie Yen
#22. And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.
Chico Hamilton
#23. Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.
Chico Hamilton
#24. We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
Chico Hamilton
#25. For the last five years I've been in the production business.
Chico Hamilton
#26. That we were made in his image. This is the next stage: after clones and gene therapy: we are changing what that image is.
James Smythe
#27. But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.
Chico Hamilton
#28. My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.
Chico Hamilton
#29. I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.
Chico Hamilton
#30. The aspiration of all writers should be to avoid leaving fissures in their work, to make sure that everything is properly secured so readers won't find a single toehold for their suspicions.
Marcos Giralt Torrente
#31. Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
#32. I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.
Chico Hamilton
