Rahsaan Quotes & Sayings

I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it's so peaceful up here. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

All it is, is a tone. So I'm gonna come back as a note! — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Coming in second place just means you were the first person to lose ... — Jeff Hawkins

You don't see the European classical musicians allowing the music of Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven to become extinct. That music has gone on for centuries and centuries. We have the same obligation. Why do we have to become so 'hip' that we can say, 'Bebop is square,' or New Orleans is square'? This, to me, is a shame. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice. — Pat Roberts

When I am playing with my cat, who knows whether she have more sport in dallying with me than I have in gaming with her? — Michel De Montaigne

We are all driven by an invisible whip. Some run, some have fun, some are hip, some tip, some dip, but we all must answer to the invisible whip. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Sometimes you have to take the harder course of action. — Joe Teti

Maybe nothing is art", maybe everything is or could be art. To that, no doubt she would have responded like she did in the installation: "The term [artist] itself seems old-fashioned. It's a term that does not relate to modern times. And it's too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it. — Miuccia Prada

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life. — Martin Amis

What about a blues in W, in the key of W. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone. — Charles Simic

Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do. — Tullian Tchividjian

None of this interpersonal work will matter if you don't use the things you learn. — Paula Heller Garland

Because you know, truth is, I don't give a shit about some scratched-up vinyl Rahsaan Kirk, Ornette Coleman sound-like-a-goose-trying-to-fuck-a-bicycle bootleg pressing from the rare Paris concert of 1967. I spend five minutes listening to that, I'm like to want to slap somebody. I — Michael Chabon

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it. — Rahsaan Roland Kirk

You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time. — Amy Pascal