Maceo Parker Quotes

#1. When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

Michael Bolton

#2. We would be in real trouble if everybody in GCHQ was like him, but we can tolerate a higher proportion of such people than most organizations. We put up with a number of people like him. Figure 66 James Ellis. (photo credit 6.4) One of Ellis's greatest qualities was his breadth of knowledge.

Simon Singh

#3. Nearly all God's jewels are crystallized tears.

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

#4. A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. But above all these things, he needs to be able to know that he is a man.

David Gemmell

#5. Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

Maceo Parker

#6. I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.

Maceo Parker

#7. People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

Maceo Parker

#8. I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

Maceo Parker

#9. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics, and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

Olafur Eliasson

#11. Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing.

George M. Cohan

#12. Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that.

Vanessa Lachey

#13. The number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

George Stigler

#14. And so, as the mob backs away to give them space ... as the riot police holster their weapons, standing down, and as Risa takes the podium, calming the crowd with a voice as soothing as a sonata, Connor Lassiter holds his family like he'll never let them go.

Neal Shusterman

#15. I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it.

Martin Scorsese

#16. Your mother would make an excellent interrogator.

Cayla Kluver

#17. Oh God, Oh God! that it were possible
To undo things done; to call back yesterday!
That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,
To untell days, and to redeem these hours.

Thomas Heywood

#18. I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

Grace Slick