Gil Evans Quotes

#1. Clare Fischer was a major influence on my harmonic concept. He and Bill Evans, and Ravel and Gil Evans, finally. You know, that's where it really came from. Almost all of the harmony that I play can be traced to one of those four people and whoever their influences were.

Herbie Hancock

#2. I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was.

Dave Brubeck

#3. I am the scourge of God

Peter Ackroyd

#4. All you have to do is close your eyes and endure the ... intense sensations you're about to experience."
"You mean the unbearable pain,"Bryson muttered. "Pain that's going
to make me cry.

James Dashner

#5. Some poems are art because of their passion.

Gerald Stern

#6. My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

Abhishek Bachchan

#7. she hated everything her parents loved

Stephen Chbosky

#8. Revision is a good impulse to have.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#9. That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.

Gil Evans

#10. Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

Theodor Reik

#11. The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

George Lucas

#12. I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write.

Zach Braff