Stanley Clarke Quotes

#1. If it's not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I'm interested in but don't yet know. It's when they explain things to me I know and they don't that the conversation goes awry.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish.

Lisa Kudrow

#3. Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well.

Elizabeth Olsen

#4. I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great.

Stanley Clarke

#5. I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.

Stanley Clarke

#6. After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Stanley Clarke

#7. Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Richard Dawkins

#8. I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined.

Toba Beta

#9. I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Stanley Clarke

#10. I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.

Stanley Clarke

#11. You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

Stanley Clarke

#12. Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head.

Stanley Clarke

#13. Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

Joyce Meyer

#14. Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from ... instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. I'm covering the worst president in American history.

Helen Thomas

#16. I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

Colm Toibin

#17. My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

Carla Hall

#18. Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.

Neel Mukherjee

#19. When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

Stanley Clarke

#20. You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

Stanley Clarke

#21. The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

Stanley Clarke

#22. I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

Stanley Clarke

#23. Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had.

Stanley Clarke

#24. Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

Stanley Clarke

#25. Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

Stanley Clarke

#26. There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

Stanley Clarke

#27. It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

Stanley Clarke

#28. The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

Arthur C. Clarke

#29. I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.

Stanley Clarke

#30. We are a bed business, and a coffee-room business. We are not a general dining business, nor do we wish it. In consequence, when diners drop in, we know what to give 'em as will keep 'em away another time.

Charles Dickens

#31. Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

Stanley Clarke