Monheit Quotes & Sayings

I tell you, when we travel with our own band and we're on the road ... Well, I can't even believe this is work. — Jane Monheit

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band. — Jane Monheit

The truth is paradoxical; but man's passion for rational coherence is even stronger than his love of truth. — Aldous Huxley

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage. — Stuart Pearson Wright

To be faced with danger and find oneself fearless was thrilling. — Kate Morton

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board. — James Gray

Jane Monheit is skyrocketing up the jazz charts. By next year, we won't be able to get her. — Jane Monheit

The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again. — Ze Frank

Like a ghost that dances on the tip of a lit cigarette,
I know what romance is, but it hasn't happened yet.
Watch it floating up to heaven only knows,
Disappearing before you get too close-
It's only smoke. You might say a flame was burning, only smoke--
but my heart is more discerning,
I keep dreaming of a fire
But when I wake up to the cold--
It's only smoke.

Eyes are hypnotizing when they hold you within their embrace.
Words are mezmerizing even when they've got nothing to say.
The game is charming in an empty kind of way.
What's the harm in asking me to play?
It's only smoke. You might say a flame was burning, only smoke--
but my heart is more discerning,
I keep dreaming of a fire
But when I wake up to the cold--
It's only smoke. — Jane Monheit

Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected. — James MacGregor Burns

It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life. — Jane Monheit

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life. — Jane Monheit

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer! — Jane Monheit

The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself. — Albert Einstein