Jazz Albert Quotes

#1. It suddenly occurred to me that true believers in hard-driving jazz - Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor - could never become owners of cleaning shops in malls across from railroad stations.

Haruki Murakami

#2. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

Alvin Lee

#3. I am all styles yet I am no style," said Bruce Lee.

Davis Miller

#4. We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today
even in the evangelical church
over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

Alistair Begg

#5. No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Argus Hamilton

#6. I don't like this." Cormac punched the stone of the wall as he paced the room. He'd been periodically punching things all day and I'd been graciously not commenting on it.

Donna Augustine

#7. The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.

Albert Murray

#8. Akmon squealed with delight. I knew you were as smart as Hercules! I will call you Black Bottom, the Sequel!

Rick Riordan

#9. If people don't like my music now, they will.

Albert Ayler

#10. But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.

Vanessa Mae

#11. We must be as pure as our music.

Albert Ayler

#12. Bebop was like humming along to Mitch Miller to me.

Albert Ayler

#13. A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

Albert Murray

#14. In His own heart, there were frequently great struggles. And those struggles drove Him to prayer.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. Calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

Anita Hill