American Quotes

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

I'm not a career woman.

I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I don't know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.

I don't like to fight.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.