Top 33 Kenny Werner Quotes
#1. Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz's unsung heroes
Harvey Pekar
#3. Seeking new levels of technical mastery should be a life long pursuit - not because you want to impress, but to facilitate any direction the great spirit inside you wants to go.
Kenny Werner
#4. What do you mean, Araluen? Death?"
Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.
John Flanagan
#5. Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
Kenny Werner
#6. 'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.
Marvin Ammori
#7. Stupid things, in the end. Nonsensical. But stupid, nonsensical things were sometimes the most important.
Wildbow
#8. Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.
Kenny Werner
#9. If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.
Kenny Werner
#10. Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.
Kenny Werner
#11. hell on earth is waking up with expectations every morning and going to sleep disappointed in yourself every night!
Kenny Werner
#12. Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts.
Kenny Werner
#13. When the shadow of death blots out my joy
And erases the face of the sun
Give me strength to endure, hope to believe
That living and dying are one.
William Wallace
#14. I lived with Ilana Glazer of 'Broad City.' She was my roommate for a year and a half. I was living with her just as she was creating and filming 'Broad City.' Both of us, and a lot of my friends, come from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater either in New York or L.A.
Rachel Bloom
#15. Not that far away, Ms. Fate, the Nightside's very own leather-costumed transvestite superheroine, was dancing on a tabletop with demon girl reporter Bettie Divine.
Simon R. Green
#16. There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
Dalai Lama XIV
#17. There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.
Kenny Werner
#18. Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.
Kenny Werner
#19. My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
Ettore Sottsass
#20. Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.
Kenny Werner
#21. It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.
Kenny Werner
#22. Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.
Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft
#23. Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.
Tucker Max
#24. In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".
Kenny Werner
#25. Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.
Kenny Werner
#26. This kid grew up," he threatened in a deep voice, grinding his hard-on between my legs. "And you're gonna fuckin' find out." Oh. My. God.
Penelope Douglas
#27. History does not end; it runs in cycles. The failure to defend Ukraine today is the failure of the Allies to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938. The world must act now so that Poland in 2015 will not be called on to play the role of Poland in 1939.
Garry Kasparov
#28. I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.
Kenny Werner
#29. Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.
Ellen Pompeo
#30. You're writing like a freshman.' And he replied- I remember this very distinctly: 'We always look for doctors but sometimes we're lucky to find a frosh.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#31. A quiet mind allows the artist to tap into the wellspring of Divine Music within.
Kenny Werner
#32. Their gowns and masks look lovely." "Not as lovely as yours," Jorgen said without hesitating. Her heart seemed to fly out of her chest and soar around the arched ceiling of the ballroom of Thornbeck Castle. Jorgen Hartman, rescuer of damsels in peril, might . . . perhaps . . . love her. But
Melanie Dickerson
#33. The thing that becomes true about you is the thing you think the most often.
Kenny Werner
