Scofield Quotes & Sayings

Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best left that way. — Chris Scofield

As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger. — Paul Scofield

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene. — John Scofield

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. — Paul Scofield

You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both. — Michael Scofield

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been. — Paul Scofield

I guess I got lucky with my sound. — John Scofield

28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is
coming, in the which all that are in the
graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that
have done good, unto the
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resurrection
of life; and they that have done evil,
unto the resurrection of
mdamnation.
30 — C.I. Scofield

Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing ... — John Scofield

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz. — John Scofield

Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith — Michael Scofield

The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments on a 45-minute set. — John Scofield

It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error. — John Scofield

The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play. — John Scofield

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it. — John Scofield

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. — Paul Scofield

If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ, and uses the old words redemption, the cross, even sacrifice and atonement-but what is his Gospel? That is the crucial question. Is salvation, perfect, entire, eternal,-justification, sanctification, glory,-the alone work of Christ, and the free gift of God to faith alone? — C.I. Scofield

Privacy is not negotiable. — Paul Scofield

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar. — John Scofield

In contrast with the law, which imposed giving as a divine requirement, Christian giving is voluntary, and a test of sincerity and love. — C.I. Scofield

Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify. — C.I. Scofield

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. — Paul Scofield

Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well. — Sandra Scofield

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on. — John Scofield

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway? — Sandra Scofield

When I saw Paul Scofield do 'Love's Labor's Lost at Stratford,' that's when I saw the potential of the level of truth that could go on up there on a stage. I said, 'This is what I want to do.' — Michael Moriarty

How was practice?" Shawna asked when Jet walked into the kitchen. "You must've worked hard again, you smell like a wet puppy." "We did." Jet grabbed a bottle of water from the refrigerator. " Your buddy said she was proud of us today." "That's good." Shawna smiled as checked on their dinner. " Are you starting to like her now?" I don't want to beat her with my flagpole anymore, but I wouldn't say I like her. Now your other friend is all up in the punch. Mrs. Scofield was at practice today passing out chocolate milk and telling us what to do with our glitter," Jet said and took a drink of her water. Shawna glanced at Jet. "What're you going to do with the glitter?" "Put it on my eyelids. Personally, I think we're gonna look like sparkly hookers, but makeup isn't my call... — Robin Alexander

King Lear is undoubtedly the greatest play ever written by Shakespeare - or anybody else for that matter. Hamlet is certainly great, but it doesn't contain as many elements of humanity as we see in Lear. — Paul Scofield

It's really good to be forced to get away and try something else, find something that's exciting. — John Scofield

I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing. — John Scofield

As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation ... — C.I. Scofield

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable. — Paul Scofield

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being. — Paul Scofield

I caught an elbow playing basketball — Michael Scofield

Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles? — John Scofield

We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning. — Sandra Scofield

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style. — John Scofield

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz. — John Scofield

I decided a long time ago I didn't want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don't think it's a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled. — Paul Scofield

One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving' ... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds ... — John Scofield

Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes. — Wentworth Miller

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. — Paul Scofield

I find that in letters you can make things whatever you wish them to be. — Sandra Scofield

I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now. — Charles Dance

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you. — John Scofield

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music. — John Scofield

Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life. — Paul Scofield

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages. — Paul Scofield

The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity. — C.I. Scofield

In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds. — Wentworth Miller

Cyrus Scofield, a preacher from Dallas, Texas, was another link in the chain that connected missionary theology on both sides of the Atlantic. This violent priest produced an annotated, fundamentalist version of the Bible that was published by Oxford University Press in 1909. It was, in a way, the most explicit sketch of the three prongs that form the basis for U.S. policy today: the return of the Jews, the decline of Islam, and the rising fortunes of the United States as a world power. — Noam Chomsky

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative. — John Scofield

The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter. — C.I. Scofield

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter. — Paul Scofield

Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple. — Paul Scofield