Dave Koz Quotes

#1. Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

Elvis Presley

#2. ...within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been...

John J. Geddes

#3. Barry Manilow was very special for me. We've had many collaborations since then and all have been equally rewarding and musical. I've learned so much from him. I like being a student around him; observing him in his environment.

Dave Koz

#4. When you've found the right one - when you see him, when you're with him - you'll feel like you're coming home.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#5. Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

Bill Crawford

#6. I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.

Dave Koz

#7. The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.

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#8. I remember coming in to the studio and meeting Barry Manilow . I was kind of star-struck. He said, "I want to play you this song." We get to the end of the song and I hear him actually sing my name as part of the lyric. I had to pick my jaw up from the floor!

Dave Koz

#9. Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

Ralph P. Boas Jr.

#10. Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

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#11. I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to work with her. To be able to play a saxophone solo on one of her songs would be the most ultimate thing ever.

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#12. Play with fire and you WILL get burned.

Terry Spear

#13. I would never say no to that [marriage] . It hasn't been my path up to this point. I think it would be nice to look forward to that. Meeting somebody of that caliber of "Yes, I want to spend my life with you." Of course, why not. I love the fact that that is legal in every state.

Dave Koz

#14. A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author ... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Herb Caen

#15. I don't want some other man's version of perfect.
I don't want society's perfect.
I want my perfect.
I want you.

Kirk Diedrich

#16. I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

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#17. When we will learn to be nonjudgmental with ourselves and to others this world will see the peace forever.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I think that there have been times, especially with writing songs, where you sit in a room with somebody, and they could be a very well-respected songwriter, but for whatever reason, the chemistry is just not right.

Dave Koz

#19. Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.

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#20. You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.

Dave Koz

#21. That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.

Dave Koz