Doc Severinsen Quotes

#1. He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

Doc Severinsen

#2. My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

Doc Severinsen

#3. Concentrate on what you need to do ... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it? ... It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it.

Laurence Boldt

#4. When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

Constance Baker Motley

#5. God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

Sathya Sai Baba

#6. I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

Amar'e Stoudemire

#7. Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

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#8. Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#9. I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.

Doc Severinsen

#10. The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

Aaron Johnson

#11. Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic

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#12. Don't expect or demand from groups what they usually cannot give. Doing so will make you needlessly angry and reactionary. They must and will be concerned with identity, boundaries, self-maintenance, self-perpetuation, and self-congratulation. This is their nature and purpose.

Richard Rohr

#13. The stairway is not
a thing of gleaming strands
a radiant evanescence
for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not
touch the stone.

Denise Levertov

#14. Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.

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#15. There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are about, because they don't see psychically. Therefore, they miss most of the beauty of life.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

Susumu Katsumata

#17. We never know how long we have. We're never guaranteed tomorrow. I could die right now, right here.

Jennifer Niven

#18. All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.

Douglas Conant

#20. Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Doc Severinsen