Quotes About Max Roach

#1. Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.

Daniel Breaker

#2. I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.

Ray Brown

#3. I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

Jamie Cullum

#4. I is what I is, and I'm not changing,

Paula Deen

#5. And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. DAD, MAX THE ROACH, AND OUR RAGGEDY OLD VAN WERE BACK WHERE THEY BELONGED!

Rachel Renee Russell

#7. I've had experiences where people say, 'I hated jazz before I heard you guys!"I'm like, 'You didn't hate jazz before you heard us, you hated the idea of jazz.'"

Kamasi Washington

#8. I find no abhorring in my appetite.

John Donne

#9. Occasionally he will catch the whispers of this abandoned voice, in the afterglow of certain dreams with that lingering sense of a paradise lost, reminding him of another kind of life, the life he was always meant to live, but for whatever reason, he did not.1

Michael Goorjian

#10. Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

George Washington

#11. I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#12. I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

Max Roach

#13. My point is that we much decolonize our minds and re-name and re-define ourselves ... In all respects, culturally, politically, socially, we must re-define ourselves and our lives, in our own terms.

Max Roach

#14. People have always challenged me. People told me I was going to get this big beer belly when I got done playing. But I work out six days a week, and when I turn 40, I'm going to still have that six pack.

Donald Driver

#15. BTW, the roach's name is Max (courtesy of Brianna, "because of I had a puppy, I'd name him Max").

Rachel Renee Russell

#16. The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Max Roach

#17. They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.

Max Roach

#18. I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

Thomas Keller

#19. I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

Max Roach

#20. Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

Max Roach

#21. Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

Max Roach

#22. Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Max Roach

#23. You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

Max Roach

#24. The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?

Donald Johanson

#25. No more Lastrygonians." Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

Rick Riordan

#26. The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.

Max Roach

#27. We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.

Lionel Shriver

#28. I didn't even apply. There was no warning.

Max Roach