Tom Harrell Quotes

#1. Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#2. A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.

Gail Sheehy

#3. Ready...set-y...spaghetti!

Dan Wells

#4. Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

Clifford Geertz

#5. Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

Tom Harrell

#6. The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

Martin Luther

#7. Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

Tom Harrell

#8. People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

Rachel Griffiths

#9. What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?"
"Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

Joseph Delaney

#10. It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Russell Banks

#11. I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.

Samira Wiley

#12. The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

Tom Harrell

#13. There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?

Woody Allen

#14. It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

Klaus Schwab

#15. Isn't the point of music to move listeners?"
Mattison smiled. "No. The point of music is to wake listeners up. To break all our ready-made habits."
"And tradition?"
"Real composers make their own.

Richard Powers

#16. There is no excuse for an airplane unless it will fly fast!

Roscoe Turner

#17. In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.

H.P. Lovecraft

#18. I try to listen attentively to musical sounds around me. You can think of the sounds of daily life as being musical. So I try to absorb the intricacies of the sounds as I would if I were listening to a piece of music. I try to see the beauty in everything.

Tom Harrell

#19. Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

Tom Harrell