Maynard Ferguson Quotes

#1. If I don't have an erection when I'm doing a drawing, I know it's no good.

Tom Of Finland

#2. The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

Ed Markey

#3. You don't endorse error, you allow it.

Jack Hyles

#4. This is not a Jewish story. It's a human story. If people don't know the truth about the Holocaust, then it could happen again to anybody, anywhere, at any time to any race or any color.

Gloria Hollander Lyon

#5. I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz' ... it's an adventure.

Maynard Ferguson

#6. The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Maynard Ferguson

#7. I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss.

Maynard Ferguson

#8. Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

Jim Talent

#9. Most people believe in x, but the truth is the opposite of x.

Anonymous

#10. Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

Maynard Ferguson

#11. '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

#12. The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.

Michael D. Higgins

#13. Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

Patrick Lussier

#14. No bird can soar in a calm.

Wilbur Wright

#15. Even as an actor, when you have a kissing scene it's still weird.

Jennifer Lopez

#16. Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.

J.K. Rowling