Jerry Wexler Quotes

#1. I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.

Donnie Fritts

#2. Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

Jon Landau

#3. When I first called Jerry Wexler, the man everybody most associates with Berns's career, and told him I planned to work on this book, Wexler's affable tone disappeared. "I'll tell you this," he said. "I don't know where he's buried, but if I did, I would piss on his grave.

Joel Selvin

#4. Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

Julie Connor

#5. My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

Bill De Blasio

#6. My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

Carol Ann Duffy

#7. There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit.

Jonathan Galassi

#8. I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about him much or think about his music or anything, but it's interesting to hear his ideas on stuff.

J Mascis

#9. I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

Jerry Wexler

#10. Dreamt all night of horticulture prospects of
in northland futures for horticulturalists versed
in cut-ups developing new strains new fruits
as for example "tremeloes

Wystan Curnow

#11. It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

Anatol Rapoport

#12. I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.

Jerry Wexler

#13. The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

Barry Lopez

#14. Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.

Lou Holtz

#15. Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Desiderius Erasmus

#16. I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

Bill Dixon

#17. Always answer the phone. You never know if it's a hit calling.

Jerry Wexler

#18. I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Walter Isaacson

#19. Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#20. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.

Jerry Wexler

#21. As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

Hideo Kojima