Pete Fountain Quotes

#1. I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

Pete Fountain

#2. What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

Pete Fountain

#3. We're here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

Jerry Moss

#4. If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

Pete Fountain

#5. You know, it's funny ... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

Pete Fountain

#6. I wish I had your talent, David."
"I like that," he said with a small frown.
"What? That I think you're talented?"
"No. I like how my name sounds on your lips."
David and Eva

Michelle K. Pickett

#7. The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.

Rebecca Adamson

#8. Being a Celtic supporter is not always easy, but it is always worthwhile.

Fergus McCann

#9. The Gospel of life must be proclaimed and human life defended in all places and all times.

Pope John Paul II

#10. Bracy sighed, "So this wasn't the heart ... it was the head."
"Bracy don't try to be poetic; it doesn't suit you.

Nicole Sager

#11. All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.

Frederick Lenz

#12. If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.

Pete Fountain

#13. Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Julia Child

#14. Butterflies instantly came to life in his stomach, and the little bastards were heavily armed.

Scott Lynch