Mellow Quotes - Page 5

• But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Success, Encouragement, Fall

  'Answered, for Lord William Hamilton' in Lord Wharncliffe (ed.) 'The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' (1861) vol. 2, p. 477

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• Try to remember the kind of September
  When life was slow and oh
  so mellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When grass was green and grain was yellow.
  Try to remember the kind of September
  When you were a tender and callow fellow.
  Try to remember and if you remember
  then follow
  follow.

  Tom Jones

  Yellow, September 11, Trying

  "Song: 'Try to Remember'". 1960.

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• Just take me home where the mood is mellow
  And the roses are grown
  M&M's are yellow
  And the light bulbs around my mirror don't flicker
  Everybody gets a nice autograph picture
  One for you and one for your sister
  Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener
  Every song's a favorite song
  And mics don't feed back.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Nice, Home

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• Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Youth, Sober

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1970). “Collected works”

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• Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces influenced by Ry Cooder's desert dusty roads as much as anything a bassist could conjure up. It fits a mellow, contemplative mood perfectly.

  Bryan Beller

  Unique, Ideas, Space

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• Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Past, Light

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”, Hogarth P.

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• There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

  Edward Abbey

  Wine, Night, Serious

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• "Rock on, my mellow!"
  "B-boys, b-girls, are you ready?"
  "This is the joint!"
  "To the beat, y'all!"
  "You don't stop!"

  Kool DJ Herc

  Girl, Boys, Rocks

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• The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Thanksgiving, Pie, Spoons

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• The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.

  George Sarton

  Heart, Humility, Pride

  George Sarton (1936). “The study of the history of mathematics and the study of the history of science”

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• The result was the same as tuning down the strings by a semitone and using a capo at the first fret. With less tension in the strings, the sound was more mellow and softer; it also allowed me to cover a larger span of the fingerboard. I used this for quite a few years, but eventually I went back to the standard fingerboard.

  Tal Farlow

  Music, Years, Sound

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• Of no distemper, of no blast he died,
  But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long:
  Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner.
  Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years;
  Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more;
  Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
  The wheels of weary life at last stood still.

  John Dryden

  Life, Fate, Autumn

  "Oedipus: A Tragedy".

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• The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?

  Woody Hayes

  Thinking, Winner, Minutes

  "Hayes produced champions, controversy" by Alex Fineman, www.espn.com.

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• Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.

  Theodore Parker

  Summer, Sweet, Winter

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.153

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• The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

  Thomas Roberts

  Summer, Spring, Sound

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• My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.

  Dave Grohl

  Artist, Careers, People

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.

  Jack Johnson

  Interviews, Nervous, Reason

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.15

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• The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Sunshine, Autumn

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.329

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• Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

  Walter Scott

  Food, Nuts, Hardest

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• Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Weather, Tree

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Evil, Giving, Romance

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.463, Penguin

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• Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.

  Quincy Jones

  Life, Brother, Wall

  FaceBook post by Quincy Jones from May 22, 2015

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• A lot of times people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think it should be wild and crazy, or loud music, and comedians are typically pretty mellow people that just want to talk to each other. I think it would be highly unusual to find comedians who want to be at a loud, crowded party.

  Tig Notaro

  Crazy, Party, Thinking

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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• I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.

  Tig Notaro

  Mother, Fashion, Artist

  "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

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