Quotes About Cassandra Wilson

#1. Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue.

Bill Milkowski

#2. Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.

Andreas Libavius

#3. All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Plato

#4. Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

Gore Vidal

#5. My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

Cassandra Wilson

#6. As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Charles Kennedy

#7. Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Cassandra Wilson

#8. How do you live with yourself, Lord Arrogant?" "Very easily, Lady Difficult. I find myself quite
charming.

G.A. Aiken

#9. My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

Cassandra Wilson

#10. "Sunday" was the best one I think I made.

Earl Sweatshirt

#11. I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

Cassandra Wilson

#12. Unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning

William Carlos Williams

#13. I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities - wisdom, kindness, power, grace, patience, loyalty - but for what they are altogether. For their entire elephantness.

Pat Derby

#14. Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Cassandra Wilson

#15. I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.

Cassandra Wilson

#16. The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#17. I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

Cassandra Wilson

#18. I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion ...

John Geddes

#19. You have made me more frustrated than a zombie at a salad bar. Fix it!

Gena Showalter

#20. I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.

Cassandra Wilson

#21. There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

Cassandra Wilson

#22. If people want to get to know me better, they've got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There's a certain set of values you learn in that experience.

George W. Bush

#23. Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

Cassandra Wilson

#24. So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

Calista Flockhart

#25. Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Cassandra Wilson

#26. I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Cassandra Wilson

#27. We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Baron De Montesquieu