"If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him."

-- Wes Montgomery

#Player Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.”
“I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.”

Source : Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.103, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.”

Source : Foreword to "Peak Performance: Business Lessons from the World's Top Sports Organizations" by Clive Gibson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes, 2000.
“It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.”
“The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.”
“Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after: all time.”
“When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.”

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