"The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation."

-- Jan Garbarek

#Elements Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Improvisation Quotes

“Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.”
“Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.”
“This is really what the White House is all about. Itâ€™s the â€œPeopleâ€™s House.â€ Itâ€™s a place that is steeped in history, but itâ€™s also a place where everyone should feel welcome. And that's why my husband and I have made it our mission to open up the house to as many people as we can.”
“When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.”
“I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.”
“People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.”
“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”
“I wanted to be in The Emerald Forest. I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!”

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