Jan Garbarek Quotes

#1. There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

Jan Garbarek

#2. Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Jan Garbarek

#3. I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.

Judy Blume

#4. You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

Jan Garbarek

#5. Scandal is only human.

Jerry Saltz

#6. Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

Jan Garbarek

#7. When we are on tour we also take chances.

Jan Garbarek

#8. In this world, we are not perfect. We can only do our best." - Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah

Laurie Ann Thompson

#9. The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Jan Garbarek

#10. America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

Paul Gillmor

#11. Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Daniel Woodrell

#12. Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Jan Garbarek

#13. If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

Jan Garbarek

#14. As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.

Colleen Atwood

#15. God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

King Hussein I

#16. I want a woman to love me for me and not just for my piggly diggly ... You catch my drift?

Bruno Mars

#17. The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.

Ron Atkinson

#18. Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Joseph Conrad

#19. Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.

Jan Garbarek

#20. I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

Jan Garbarek

#21. You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.

Glenn Greenwald

#22. I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.

Christopher Buckley