Top 100 Reinhardt Quotes
#1. Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...
B.B. King
#2. You talk to me of choices?' said Reinhardt. 'I only know that the choices life makes you take strip away the person we wanted to be. Builds us up into something we never wanted. Until you look back on life, and you see that the track of your life is a scar that hides what might have been.
Luke McCallin
#3. By far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.
Jeff Beck
#4. Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
Eric Kandel
#5. Anything by Gonzalez Rubalcaba is unbelievable. I've been listening to the best of Django Reinhardt.
Robert Palmer
#6. Barely pausing between songs, he played American compositions like "St. Louis Blues" and "Tiger Rag." He played "Parfum" from the gypsy legend Django Reinhardt. He
Mitch Albom
#7. Love is hard. It's forgiving your best friend when you want to shove her away.
Liz Reinhardt
#8. Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment
Dana Reinhardt
#9. Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
Uwe Reinhardt
#10. That I love her, that I want her, that I'm never going anywhere, that she and I are going to last. That this is real. That it's forever.
Liz Reinhardt
#11. Sometimes is all we really have anyway, right? Nothing is always.
Liz Reinhardt
#13. I hand over some files to and her eyes meet mine, all cool and sweet like a snow-cone in July.
Liz Reinhardt
#14. He was looking at me, and I wondered whether he could feel how much I wanted to touch him.
Dana Reinhardt
#15. The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!
Max Reinhardt
#16. He's kissing like he doesn't have a minute to waste, like I'll evaporate under his hands if he doesn't keep pace.
Liz Reinhardt
#18. As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt
#19. Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.
Dana Reinhardt
#20. Don't worry about the finish line. Don't question what you're doing. Just quiet your mind and keep up the pace.
Dana Reinhardt
#21. He's the path lined with wildflowers, And I'm Red Riding Hood. I've been warned, but I just can't resist the blossom and perfume that calls me over.
Liz Reinhardt
#22. How can I miss someone so badly when we're in the same room?
Liz Reinhardt
#23. It's not just a damn game. Whatever it is that I feel for you is more real than anything I've ever felt before.
Liz Reinhardt
#24. Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt
#25. The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea ... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
Ad Reinhardt
#26. He's holding an armful of pink tulips and wearing a hungry, focused expression. His blue eyes
travel up and down over my body, and I feel almost shy under his gaze.
"You're a goddess."
He says it like a normal person would say, "Your dress is white.
Liz Reinhardt
#28. Tell me. Tell me why you think you're leaving me again. Because you're not, you know. You're not leaving without me
Liz Reinhardt
#29. It would be a bad thing because I'm afraid to gamble with your heart, Evan. I'm afraid to hurt you.
Liz Reinhardt
#30. The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.
Ad Reinhardt
#31. They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.
Dana Reinhardt
#32. I'm curious how someone ... finds God, or solace, or peace or whatever it is he finds out here alone ... while he's reciting words. Is it just a matter of believing what you say?
Dana Reinhardt
#33. Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
Ad Reinhardt
#34. There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.
Dana Reinhardt
#35. I think about how we can't always live in the moment because moments pass, and when we're lucky, we have the kind of moments that we can't help wanting to go back to. We think about them, remember how they felt, and when more time passes we tell stories of these moments that are worth reliving.
Dana Reinhardt
#36. You've fought for me. You've challenged me. You've begged me and left me and come back to me
Liz Reinhardt
#37. The truth about our lie. The truth about our lie? Or was it a lie about the truth? Truth and lies. Lies and Truths.
Lielielielielie. Truthtruthtruththruthtruth.
Dana Reinhardt
#38. I can't think of any decision where the entire Congress immediately rushes to condemn a decision by the court. It's getting to be election time and this gives everyone in Congress a chance to prove they are patriotic.
Stephen Reinhardt
#39. Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmlessm but before you knew it things got out of your control.
Dana Reinhardt
#41. Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
#42. I'd watched enough TV in the lonely afternoons after school, before there was a cheese shop to go to, to know that there were boys who lied, who knew how to say just the right thing or give you just the right look. Boys who could make you feel a way you thought you didn't deserve to feel.
Dana Reinhardt
#43. It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good.
Dana Reinhardt
#44. So you like me because I can think like a rebel, but I act like a good girl?
Liz Reinhardt
#45. I could never hurt you as bad as you try to hurt yourself,
Liz Reinhardt
#46. My paintings are the last paintings one can make.
Ad Reinhardt
#47. The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
Ad Reinhardt
#49. I'm winning a date with you. Granted, it's the frigging lamest date on earth, but I'm winning it anyway.
Liz Reinhardt
#52. I will never break your heart. I will never hurt you. I might fuck up, I might not be perfect, but I'll never hurt you, Evan. You have my word.
Liz Reinhardt
#53. I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.
Ad Reinhardt
#54. I swear to you, I will rip this world and every other one apart to get to you if you need me.
Liz Reinhardt
#55. What man doesn't have dress socks and shoes?" he asks pointedly. "You wanna grow up to be a hobo?
Liz Reinhardt
#56. Always act the part - and you can become whatever you wish to become!
Max Reinhardt
#57. The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks.
Dana Reinhardt
#58. Most of us need a good ride on the Sin Wagon, and if I were to meet a man who was better looking than say, Yoda, I might treat him to some Serta hospitality. I'd like to have said this to Mama but could not because she is certain that a real Southern lady doesn't enjoy the business at hand.
Susan Reinhardt
#59. One day things can be going along like they always were and then, suddenly, in a simple rotation of an overheated planet, everything can change.
Dana Reinhardt
#61. Forget all of our past bullshit, okay? I've got less than a handful of days to convince you that I'm not a complete douche bag, and I want a fair shot. Give it to me.
Liz Reinhardt
#62. I was not boy crazy. Really, I wasn't. But I was lonely, I guess.
Dana Reinhardt
#63. Dresses that are complicated," she says softly, the smile on her lips pure wicked fun, "are essential to teach girls that they shouldn't bother with guys who won't figure out how to take off a dress.
Liz Reinhardt
#64. You are a total bitch with no humor. Please go get treatment and ENJOY my latest novel!!!! You old crow!"
[Response to a review of her book]
Susan Reinhardt
#65. said. "Life gets hard when a woman hits her mid to late 30s. I told you it's the Uglying Up years. The wrinkles come and the arm fat. The hangy-down thing on most necks.
Susan Reinhardt
#66. I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
Ad Reinhardt
#67. Can I ... " He stopped and his jaw flexed. "Can I kiss you?"
I didn't answer, and he didn't wait for me to. His hands caught me gently behind the neck and he pressed his mouth to mine, softly but firmly. Then he moved one arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him.
Liz Reinhardt
#68. As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.
Ad Reinhardt
#69. I believe in the immortality of the Theatre, it is a most joyous place to hide, for all those who have secretly put their childhood in their pockets and run off and away with it, to play on to the end of their days.
Max Reinhardt
#71. Darling, family can be the very devil in disguise. More powerful than any drug, more alluring than any sin. They can demand a loyalty that will rip your heart out and chew it up without the thought of an apology.
Liz Reinhardt
#72. The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.
Uwe Reinhardt
#73. I'm powerless against a bad boy and his hot kisses.
Liz Reinhardt
#74. An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
Ad Reinhardt
#75. My brother, he says. My brother is dead.
And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.
Dana Reinhardt
#76. The ACA is an ugly patch on an ugly system - and I don't think it's worth mentioning in the context of price or quality transparency.
Uwe Reinhardt
#77. There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.
Dana Reinhardt
#78. Art is not the spiritual side of business.
Ad Reinhardt
#79. Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Ad Reinhardt
#80. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility. ~ Junk Miles
Liz Reinhardt
#81. The roof was torn off the gym. God's way of telling the jocks that they'd better remember who's really charge.
Dana Reinhardt
#82. I'm in love. Twice. It's not a love that divides fifty-fifty. It's not a love that's split between good and bad, safe and dangerous, real and imaginary. It's all mixed up, confused, good, bad and ugly love times two, and it's all mine.
Liz Reinhardt
#83. Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly.
"I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.
Liz Reinhardt
#84. I've learned enough this year to know that life may surprise you, but not usually in the ways you imagine.
Dana Reinhardt
#85. We met in court. I don't think we qualify as good decision makers.
Liz Reinhardt
#86. It takes every fucking ounce of my self-control to say the next three words. 'Lead the way.
Liz Reinhardt
#87. Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility.
Liz Reinhardt
#88. It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
Ad Reinhardt
#89. I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
Ad Reinhardt
#90. I wanted to twinkle underwater like the lights of the city.
Dana Reinhardt
#91. There are things I want, too. Things I want to change. I'm tired of only being there for a good time, Brenna. I'm tired of being a corrupter of the people I love. I no one wants to be the perpetual fuck up.
Liz Reinhardt
#92. So I get ready to let go and free-fall in the scariest jump of my life. But she's with me. So I swallow my fear and do it.
Liz Reinhardt
#93. Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.
Dana Reinhardt
#94. The more an artist works the more there is to do.
Ad Reinhardt
#96. I wanted to call you. See you. You have no idea how bad I wanted to
Liz Reinhardt
#98. I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.
Ad Reinhardt
#99. My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.
Ad Reinhardt
#100. When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart
Dana Reinhardt
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