Quotes About Koz

#1. You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.

Mooji

#2. Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Barry Manilow was very special for me. We've had many collaborations since then and all have been equally rewarding and musical. I've learned so much from him. I like being a student around him; observing him in his environment.

Dave Koz

#4. Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don't risk failure, you're never going to do anything that's different from what you've already done or what somebody else has done.

Charlie Kaufman

#5. The attitude you have right now is the one you are choosing. Is it the one you want?

Stephen C. Lundin

#6. The fire seemed to live, go down, or die according to its own schemata. In the morning, however, it always saw fit to die.

Toni Morrison

#7. I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.

Dave Koz

#8. It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

Aubrey De Grey

#9. The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.

Dave Koz

#10. I remember coming in to the studio and meeting Barry Manilow . I was kind of star-struck. He said, "I want to play you this song." We get to the end of the song and I hear him actually sing my name as part of the lyric. I had to pick my jaw up from the floor!

Dave Koz

#11. And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

L. Ron Hubbard

#12. Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

Dave Koz

#13. The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

John D'Agata

#14. I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

John Travolta

#15. I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to work with her. To be able to play a saxophone solo on one of her songs would be the most ultimate thing ever.

Dave Koz

#16. But dear, don't be afraid of love it's only magic.

Drake

#17. Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

John Logan

#18. I would never say no to that [marriage] . It hasn't been my path up to this point. I think it would be nice to look forward to that. Meeting somebody of that caliber of "Yes, I want to spend my life with you." Of course, why not. I love the fact that that is legal in every state.

Dave Koz

#19. My hand no longer trembled out of fear, but out of anticipation. I knew I was addicted to the rush it provided, to the release it provided from the emotional mess I had become, but I didn't care. It wasn't drugs. It was just a few cuts on my arm.

S.M. Koz

#20. Well, here we are at the passage. Two steps, Jane, take care of the two steps. Oh! no, there is but one. Well, I was persuaded there were two. How very odd! I was convinced there were two, and there is but one.

Jane Austen

#21. I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.

Dave Koz

#22. What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Rick Perlstein

#23. Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants ... or (again) parties.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#24. I think that there have been times, especially with writing songs, where you sit in a room with somebody, and they could be a very well-respected songwriter, but for whatever reason, the chemistry is just not right.

Dave Koz

#25. How could a little nick control something I had no control over? It wasn't until he wiped it clean and applied a band-aid that the physical pain of the cut took hold, but I didn't even care. That was a minimal price to pay in order to lessen the internal pain.

S.M. Koz

#26. Barry Manilow is a guy who's had a tremendous longevity that few have had in the music business. I'm in awe of what he does.

Dave Koz

#27. Divine election is a theme mentioned often in sacred Scripture. God has chosen to reveal this truth for the spiritual nurture and growth of the people of God.

John Samson

#28. You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.

Dave Koz

#29. That night I did it. I used a utility knife from our garage. It was amazing. For that brief moment, all the tension, anxiety, stress I put on myself disappeared. It went up in a cloud of smoke and my head was finally clear after months of endless internal battles.

S.M. Koz

#30. That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.

Dave Koz