"I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms that I play. And so it's a very organic way. It's a lot like Charles Mingus played, cuing people in from what you play and how you play it rather than standing in front of a band, conducting and pointing."

-- Joe Lovano

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.”
“By accepting responsibility, we take effective steps toward our goal: an inclusive human society on a habitable planet, a society that works for all humans and for all nonhumans. By accepting responsibility, we move closer to creating a world that works for all.”
“I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and after reading them I feel as Senator Brandegee felt after a celebrated dinner in Washington. "I feel," he said, "as if I had been wandering with Alice in Wonderland and had tea with the Mad Hatter."”
“For the entire decade of my 30s and the early part of my 40s, I didn't write a word of fiction. I just left behind a dream of my life.”
“Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.”

Source : Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”
“What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.”
“She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface theyâ€™re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because theyâ€™d just accuse you of being paranoid.”

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