Severinsen Quotes & Sayings

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything. — Doc Severinsen

I'm no longer interested in watching you rise from the falls you keep taking in vain just for a reason to stand. — Buddy Wakefield

Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation. — Doc Severinsen

If only the physical aspects of hatha yoga are used, it is called ghatastha yoga (ghata means "physical effort"). Modern expressions like "fitness yoga" and "power yoga" that flourish within gym classes are within the same category, even if they do not derive from the original exercises' rhythm and succession. In many instances "power yoga" has a positive effect on physical health; but if there is no aim to ease the mind, to gain self-insight and control of your thoughts, and to experience the divine within you and within the universe, the deeper meaning of yoga and - possibly life - is lost. — Stig Avall Severinsen

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present. — Doc Severinsen

I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September. — Lisa Snowdon

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. — Pat Conroy

Everything in life is miraculous. It rests within the power of each of us to awaken from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. — James Branch Cabell

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. — Christopher Lasch

My gods dwell in temples made with hands. — Oscar Wilde

To be a leader, be an example that others may follow. — Debasish Mridha

I don't like doing interviews. I'm not pretending to be some super neurotic, hiding in my closet. I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken. — Jared Leto

I had noticed before that to sleep, actually sleep with someone did give this sense of intimacy, as though your dreams had flowed out of you to mingle with theirs and fold you both in a blanket of unconscious knowing. A throwback of some kind, I thought ... it was an act of trust to sleep in the presence of another person. If the trust was mutual, simple sleep could bring you closer together than the joining of bodies. — Diana Gabaldon

Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic — Doc Severinsen

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. — Doc Severinsen

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. — Doc Severinsen

I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops. — Doc Severinsen

The more you believe in the power of thought, and the more you listen to your breath, the greater changes you can create in your life. — Stig Avall Severinsen