Earl Hines Quotes

#1. To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.

John Updike

#2. I have never seen anyone die for the ontological argument.

Albert Camus

#3. That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.

Rebecca Ferguson

#4. Clearly, she hadn't heard of the two words 'social' and 'life'.

Adele Rose

#5. He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of course. But it was lonely.

Adelheid Manefeldt

#6. Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.

Terry Teachout

#7. I have lots of favourite memories but I can't say that I have a favourite film.

John Hurt

#8. [She wished] that once, just once, the fairy tale fantasy would come true. Not the prince in shining armor . . . But the other one . . . in which innocent little Red Riding Hood meets the Big Bad Wolf.

Sierra Dafoe

#9. I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different leaves and they all look beautiful. But at the end of the season, they fold back up and it's still the tree trunk.

Earl Hines

#10. There's room at the top, they are telling you still. But first you must learn how to smile as you kill!

John Lennon

#11. It had been a failure, but it was a failure he understood, and that made it a victory.

James S.A. Corey

#12. One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

Steven McDonnell

#13. I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

Earl Hines

#14. You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

Earl Hines

#15. Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.

Brad Bird

#16. I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

Earl Hines

#17. If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!

Earl Hines