Marc Myers famous quotes

What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.
-- Marc Myers

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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.