Roy Haynes Quotes

#1. Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

Dorothy Norman

#2. You must own it to play it.

Roy Haynes

#3. This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

Roy Haynes

#4. In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.

Don Rickles

#5. I had taken a partner once before - but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye
open.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.

Roy Haynes

#7. As far as favorite 'overall package' record of all time, I'd have to say 'My Girl' by The Temptations. I like everything about it, not only the composition - but the arrangement, the production, the lead vocals, the background vocals, the horns, the strings. That one I listen to over and over again.

Paul Shaffer

#8. The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

Roy Haynes

#9. The question about the end bursts out of the torment of history and the intolerableness of historical existence.

Jurgen Moltmann

#10. I had no idea how much music and singing really means to people, and in my own tiny way to be a part of that is very humbling and very sweet, and and I feel very honored ... I have a great appreciation for this, in every ways and a new understanding, and I'm just as amazed as anyone else.

Ysabella Brave

#11. What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

Roy Haynes

#12. Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.

Nancy Lopez

#13. Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

Peter Mayle

#15. Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

Roy Haynes

#16. The Universe mirrors you. It mirrors your thoughts, both conscious and subconscious. It mirrors your actions and reactions.

Joe Vulgamore

#17. How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black holes. Because black holes are objects whose pull of gravity is so intense that nothing can escape it, not even light, so you can't see it directly.

Andrea M. Ghez

#18. (I measure time by how a body sways.)

Theodore Roethke

#19. In the browser, try to use a shim[18] that defers to requestAnimationFrame in browsers that support it and falls back on setTimeout in those that don't.

Trevor Burnham

#20. I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.

Roy Haynes

#21. They were bodies electric.

Maggie Stiefvater

#22. Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'

Jerry Leiber

#23. I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

Roy Haynes