Top 44 Will And Sonny Quotes

#1. I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #3352
#2. You don't see people in prison treating each other the way people do on the outside, and the reason is that if you're rude to somebody in prison, you get killed.

Sonny Barger

Will And Sonny Quotes #3604
#3. People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

Sonny Bono

Will And Sonny Quotes #20600
#4. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Sidney Sheldon

Will And Sonny Quotes #21308
#5. Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #22622
#6. Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #31589
#7. Sonny was a spiky ray of light to those lucky enough to be close to him, but life had taught him to play his cards close to his chest.

Garrett Leigh

Will And Sonny Quotes #42302
#8. A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

Sonny Liston

Will And Sonny Quotes #45907
#9. Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

Sonny Bono

Will And Sonny Quotes #57045
#10. Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.

William Goldman

Will And Sonny Quotes #68799
#11. How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #106180
#12. Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.

P. J. O'Rourke

Will And Sonny Quotes #120756
#13. Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

Sonny Perdue

Will And Sonny Quotes #151148
#14. One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.

Sonny Vaccaro

Will And Sonny Quotes #155984
#15. What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.

Sonny Vaccaro

Will And Sonny Quotes #163737
#16. I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

Cher

Will And Sonny Quotes #165025
#17. I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #178433
#18. People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

Sonny Vaccaro

Will And Sonny Quotes #197612
#19. Dignity is treasure one should never lose. When humbling yourself, Don't bow down to any man. For he is no greator than you

Sonny Cele

Will And Sonny Quotes #200689
#20. What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!

Pete La Roca

Will And Sonny Quotes #203307
#21. What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #208703
#22. What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know ... morons

Gene Wilder

Will And Sonny Quotes #211316
#23. I'll send you a friend request."
"You do that, sonny. I'm on the Internet every last Friday in the month, from eleven to three.

Nina George

Will And Sonny Quotes #217571
#24. There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.

Sonny Vaccaro

Will And Sonny Quotes #219332
#25. Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Sonny Perdue

Will And Sonny Quotes #222364
#26. Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

Muhammad Ali

Will And Sonny Quotes #237751
#27. How would you like to find out how good my right is?

Sonny Liston

Will And Sonny Quotes #254004
#28. I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

Sonny Perdue

Will And Sonny Quotes #257892
#29. When sorrows surround you few will comfort you. When happiness arises many will be part of the celebrations
And when Tragedy happens only the Lord is a prayer by calling out his Glorious name

Sonny Cele

Will And Sonny Quotes #258173
#30. Here's a lesson for you, Sonny: Don't write if you can talk, don' talk if you can nod your head, don't nod if you don't have to

Ed Falco

Will And Sonny Quotes #259041
#31. I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #259561
#32. In them days I just as soon died
except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

Sonny Terry

Will And Sonny Quotes #264268
#33. I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

Sonny Bono

Will And Sonny Quotes #271723
#34. My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Will And Sonny Quotes #277853
#35. From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.

Brownie McGhee

Will And Sonny Quotes #285961
#36. Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.

Sonny Vaccaro

Will And Sonny Quotes #286002
#37. Jazz never ends ... it just continues.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #298137
#38. My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

Sonny Liston

Will And Sonny Quotes #298346
#39. I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #303982
#40. Inspiration is not what you find from the outter world or what you seek for within the nearest regions.
Its what you tend to find when you search within your own life and event that partake. Search closely because Inspiration will never tell you when it passes-bt

Sonny Cele

Will And Sonny Quotes #599761
#41. My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.

Sonny Barger

Will And Sonny Quotes #807121
#42. I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death.

Sonny Barger

Will And Sonny Quotes #892467
#43. I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #1241593
#44. It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

Sonny Rollins

Will And Sonny Quotes #1719839

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