James Waslaski Quotes & Sayings

Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now? — Charles Mingus

The greatness that would make us grave,
Is but an empty thing.
What more than mirth would mortals have?
The cheerful man's a king. — Isaac Bickerstaffe

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing ... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius. — Vladimir Nabokov

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson. — Stephen Leacock

frequently recommend Miller's book, Finding Darwin's God, — Richard Dawkins

The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever. — Grace Slick

I've rarely met couples who - they both love to do everything together. — Paul Mazursky

If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others. — Amanda Palmer

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Hustling is to work what surfing the Internet is to reading. If you add up how much you read in a year on the Internet - tweets, Facebook posts, lists - you've read the equivalent of a shit ton of books, but in fact you've read no books in a year. When I look back on it, that's what hustling was. It's maximal effort put into minimal gain. It's a hamster wheel. — Trevor Noah

The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower. — Gary Zukav