Elvin Quotes

#1. Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.

Matt Cameron

#2. Ah, I do so love this charmingly rustic, elvin kingdom!-Baozhai

Mar Mai

#3. In fact, most of the great human innovations of the last few centuries happened under elvin tutelage. Electricity. Penicillin. Chocolate cake.

Shannon Messenger

#4. Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

Elvin Jones

#5. It must be remembered: fields end freedom. Whatever the astonishing subsequent achievements of civilization, it had a little recognized price: humanity itself became one of its own domesticated species. We enslaved ourselves to conquer.

Mark Elvin

#6. Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.

Goodman Ace

#7. Blame is the cowards way out.

Elvin Hayes

#8. If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

Elvin Jones

#9. That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

Elvin Jones

#10. The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

Elvin Jones

#11. Blues ain't football. You don't have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

Elvin Bishop

#12. Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.

Mark Elvin

#13. I fooled around and fell in love.

Elvin Bishop

#14. [There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds - all 'Chinese' - in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping].

Mark Elvin

#15. I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity ... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

Elvin Jones

#16. I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

Adrian Peterson

#17. I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

Elvin Jones

#18. I want to live again ... with you. You've changed my world. I'm altered, no longer stuck in purgatory.

K.I. Lynn

#19. Im as country as a dozen eggs.

Elvin Bishop

#20. To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

Elvin Jones

#21. I don't know why you're fighting it, Len. One, he's frigging gorgeous. Two, he's so frigging gorgeous you need to count it twice. Three, he saw you fall down and left practice to see if you were okay. That's, like, devotion.

Josephine Angelini

#22. When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

Elvin Hayes

#23. You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.

Elvin Jones

#24. It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

Elvin Jones

#25. Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Elvin C. Stakman

#26. It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct

Mother Teresa

#27. I must have been through about a million girls, I'd love 'em and leave 'em alone. I didn't care how much they'd cry.

Elvin Bishop

#28. We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better.

Kenneth Williams