Swings Quotes - Page 15

• What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal with musical material, he is never repetitive and hasn't had to invent a new language. Also, he never asked me to do anything but swing!

  Pete La Roca

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Art, Player

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Bebop, Broadway

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• Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, but they will never lift a club or swing a racket and therefore will never find out how great they could have been. Instead, they'll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television.

  Donald Trump

  Stars, Golf, Men

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.37, Random House

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• Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me.

  Stephen Colbert

  Beautiful, Reading, Night

  "Stephen Colbert: The Playboy Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. October 27, 2012.

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• As human beings we have this immediate gateway - you’ve just to articulate exactly the way that you’re exiled, exactly the way that you don’t belong, exactly the way that you can’t love, exactly the way that you can’t move ... and you’re on your way again. You’re on your way home. If you can just say exactly the way that you’re imprisoned - the door swings open.

  David Whyte

  Moving, Home, Doors

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• Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, War, Fighting

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• Oh! death will find me, long before I tire
  Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly
  Into the shade and loneliness and mire
  Of the last land!

  Rupert Brooke

  Death, Loneliness, Land

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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  Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.

  Bette Davis

  Nice, Grandmother, Hollywood

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• What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

  Antonio Carlos Jobim

  United States, Cuba, Brazil

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• My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Politics, Tvs

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• We both liked the idea but couldn't figure out a way to get up to the roof. Vince had just seen the Spider-Man movie and suggested we shoot webs out of our wrists and swing up there. We asked Vince not to contribute any more ideas.

  Chris Jericho

  Men, Wwe, Ideas

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• At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Loyalty, Pride, Men

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.179, Island Press

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• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Tree, Victory

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Iron, Guy

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• Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Sea

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• One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

  Don DeLillo

  Integrity, Literature, Language

  Don DeLillo (1992). “Mao II: A Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

  Hank Haney

  Simple, Thinking, One Day

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• I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

  Mose Allison

  Numbers, People, Bebop

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• There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.

  Lou Engle

  Spring, Men, Keys

  James W. Goll, Lou Engle (2011). “The Call of the Elijah Revolution”, p.101, Destiny Image Publishers

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• So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, People, Vulnerable

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• I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

  Ricky Ponting

  Moving, Golf, Different

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's nice to have a debate in a swing state.

  Michael Bennet

  Nice, Debate, States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

  Nastia Liukin

  Air, Bars, Able

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• The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.

  N. T. Wright

  Eye, Long, People

  "Bishop's Heaven: Is There Life After the Afterlife?" by Martin Bashir, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2008.

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