Sideman Quotes

#1. I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

Sam Shepard

#2. Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

Benny Green

#3. Even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band ...

Vince Gill

#4. As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

Michael Connelly

#5. In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

David Sanborn

#6. That Ted Turner is a genius ... He has taken what used to be a carnival side show and turned it into a gold mine. Yes - wrestling has become prime time for the masses. He's making these giant men into millionares with movie star status.

Samantha Barks

#7. I am not an absolutist or chauvinist whose ways are immune to evolution. My core philosophy is that I might be wrong.

Asaad Almohammad

#8. Even if the pace is slow in championships, you can still sprint well and still power in the last 200, which is always the main part when the race is slow.

David Rudisha

#9. Life has to be dangerous.

Alain Robert

#10. You might be a redneck if you need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the House of Tattoos.

Jeff Foxworthy

#11. The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial.

Dan Brown

#12. I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

Channing Tatum

#13. Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Richard Hooker

#14. There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it; - for there is nothing (so effectual) for which it can be changed.

Lao-Tzu

#15. What exactly was your plan here, Mr. Andrews? To just walk in and flash your little smile, no questions asked?

Julie James

#16. If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought. The thing he is trying to illuminate seems as elusive as before.

Ernest Becker

#17. One of the things I love best about [my] 'Kind Diet' is that you will actually become part of the solution to our global problems.

Alicia Silverstone