Sextet Quotes

#1. We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.

Bill Crow

#2. The only way I can endure the future is to ignore it.

Helen Jacobs

#3. O Christ, my life, possess me utterly.
Take me and make a little Christ of me.
If I am anything but thy father's son,
'Tis something not yet from the darkness won.
Oh, give me light to live with open eyes.
Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.

George MacDonald

#4. Does that look like flowing gold?

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#5. I think people forget that to be on the A list you first had to go through the original graded Parliamentary Selection Board. I did that and then like everyone else had the further interviews to get onto the A list.

Adam Rickitt

#6. I always say that when it comes to picking a single, firstly you have to go with what feels right and what your gut tells you.

Ella Henderson

#7. It was like finding oneself under the scrutiny of a stuffed bird. His

John Connolly

#8. But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

Martha Ostenso

#9. We all shuffle our own deck in life ... The deck is our brain, the cards are our thoughts, the results we get will determine if we are giving ourselves a fair deal. Do you have an authentic dealer?

Michael Levy

#10. Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more
adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth.
Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

Frank O'Hara