Pharoah Sanders Quotes

#1. I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

David Warner

#2. With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore, people still call me that. And I'm like ' ... retired.'

Tyra Banks

#3. Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#4. Think you two puny Druids can hold this keep for a single night?

Karen Marie Moning

#5. Reason we're here is because almost every lovin' kid in the Glade has come up to me in the last day or two either boohooing about Thomas or beggin' to take his bloody hand in marriage ...

James Dashner

#6. I just want a band and keep them working, people that I like and who I think a lot of. Once my band is happy, then I am happy.

Pharoah Sanders

#7. I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.

Pharoah Sanders

#8. In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#9. I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.

Adam Ant

#10. As thou thinkest, so art thou.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. Maybe it's less threatening to believe that our beloved spouse is worthy to live out his or her unlived life, while we are not.

Steven Pressfield

#12. He didn't say nothing. He would just do things. He never said nothing or explained nothing. He just would do it and that was it. You were on your own. You had to be very independent being around John [Coltrane].

Pharoah Sanders

#13. Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

Craig Groeschel

#14. I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.

Pharoah Sanders

#15. [John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.

Pharoah Sanders