Humphrey Lyttelton Quotes

#1. Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#2. An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#3. You worry less about misplacing a star when the whole sky is yours.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. Human emotion is not a linear experience. That which provokes emotion in one may provoke little, if anything, in another.

A. Zavarelli

#5. It is a very wide range of people that we get for the show.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#6. Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

Zoroaster

#7. I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

Laura Carmichael

#8. The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had ... his photocopier ...

Humphrey Lyttelton

#9. The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists,
the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,
while the truth tells us we don't know.

Kodai Okuda

#10. I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

Bill Parcells

#11. If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.

George S. Clason

#12. Coincidence is a wonderful thing.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#13. I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#14. I just stroll in right before the recording goes on.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#15. There is something I want to say but I don't know what it is.

Tarryn Fisher

#16. I'm so tired of crying.
I'm so tired of losing.
I'm just so tired.

Jessica Brody

#17. The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#18. Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?

Humphrey Lyttelton

#19. For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#20. How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#21. I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!

Humphrey Lyttelton

#22. I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so on. So Barry did the first one, he may have done a few more than the first one in the series, and I took it up from then.

Humphrey Lyttelton

#23. The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Thomas Hobbes