Quotes About Clifford Brown

#1. Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.

Wynton Marsalis

#2. Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the influence of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and others in his playing, but Dave has his own voice, and it's a nice one!

Dan Feiszli

#3. I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

Wynton Marsalis

#4. There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

Sonny Rollins

#5. Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Herb Alpert

#6. I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.

Quincy Jones

#7. If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.

Pat Metheny

#8. Love is the only reason that is reason enough

Kamand Kojouri

#9. Ray, I've run my last run of moonshine, I'm not gonna do it anymore, I'm just getting too old to be doing this stuff.

Popcorn Sutton

#10. Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Richard Brookhiser

#11. I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

Michel Gondry

#12. In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.

Hal Rogers

#13. Being an author is like being a kick boxer. You take a lot of hits to the head.

Judah Lee Davis

#14. I'm scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can't fall asleep.

Maurice Sendak

#15. I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.

Ellen DeGeneres

#16. His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Ann Brashares

#17. I'm sorry that you are hurting. It's because of me that you are even here in the first place. I offered to get those passes so I could get to know you. There is something about you that feels so comforting and familiar, and I'm not sure why.

Chanda Hahn

#18. One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won first prize ... but he didn't. I don't care. You can keep all your small dogs. You can keep all your black, white, brown, and spotted dogs. I'll keep Clifford ... Wouldn't you?

Norman Bridwell

#19. Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Paulo Coelho

#20. Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

John Baldacci

#21. Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

Paul Samuelson

#22. Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

John Hagee

#23. Hey, Lou!" she yelled. "I meant to say to you. Moving on doesn't mean you loved my dad any less, you know. I'm pretty sure even he would tell you that.

Jojo Moyes