Zoot Quotes

#1. To what will love not stoop!

Samuel Beckett

#2. It may be laid down broadly that irrationalism, i.e., disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which there is no evidence, or to deny something for which there is very good evidence.

Bertrand Russell

#3. I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.

Zoot Sims

#4. If I don't play for a while, it's just like getting hungry.

Zoot Sims

#5. The only riot I'm okay with is a zoot suit riot.

Julie Klausner

#6. It had become clear to me that the lives of the rich and famous were not so differ from the lies of the Comanches: you did what you pleased and answered to no one.

Philipp Meyer

#7. We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

Gary Frank

#8. Quiet people have the loudest minds

Steven Hawkings

#9. It seemed perverse to some, but for all their apparent militarism the Gzilt had remained peaceful over many millenia; it was the avowedly peaceful Culture that had , within living memory, taken part in an all-out galactic war against another civilisation.

Iain M. Banks

#10. Music keeps people sane.

Zoot Sims

#11. On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

John Abercrombie

#12. Behold
The approach of him whom none believes,
Whom all believe that all believe,
A pagan in a varnished car.

Wallace Stevens

#13. If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it.

Zoot Sims

#14. We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.

Zoot Sims

#15. There is a proliferation of terrorism as a result of the war in Iraq. What America has created is a den for terrorists to breed in Iraq as a result of the war and to ship their ideologies and their fears and their capabilities around the world, not just in the Middle East, but in other continents.

David E. Bonior

#16. When it comes to my skin, I take it seriously. Being on camera and doing what I do, it's very important to start with a good base. So finding products that work really well with your skin are important.

Shay Mitchell

#17. As long as you've got your horn in your mouth, you're developing.

Zoot Sims

#18. 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