American Quotes

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child.

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.

I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.

I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.

There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

It's very clean. With tape, you get noise.

It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.

I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.

I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.

I like to listed to the adventurous guys - the Coltranes, Miles Davis, the guys who just let it loose.