Doc Severinsen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out theres a certain acceptance that sets in; youre no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.
-- Doc Severinsen

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Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
-- Doc Severinsen

#Symphony #Band #World
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.
-- Doc Severinsen

#Play #Focus #Jazz
My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.
-- Doc Severinsen

#Acres #Neighbor #Goodness
Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation.
-- Doc Severinsen

#Thinking #Play #Style
Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic
-- Doc Severinsen

#Ravel #Benefits #Chiropractic

The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.
The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.
But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

Doc Severinsen famous quotes

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