Tristano Quotes & Sayings

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream. — Henry David Thoreau

It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple. — John Woo

Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst. — Richard Blackaby

Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world. — Carolyn See

Having feelings doesn't mean you have to have sex. — Greg Behrendt

'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too. — Jill Scott

The hippest thing you can do is not play at all. Just listen. — Lennie Tristano

Dave Frank is one of the few people that can REALLY play! — Lennie Tristano

The jazz musician's function is to feel, — Lennie Tristano

You could make your fingers reproduce exactly what you felt, if you really worked at it. I achieved it, not only spending a lot of time at the keyboard but finding ways I could make my fingers reproduce my deepest feelings. It meant, when you hit a note with a finger, you sank into that note all the way to the bottom of the keyboard until it went pow! Right? ... — Lennie Tristano

I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Nowadays, it is true, we have mass media and expert propaganda to spread suspicion and fear. But the people I mean - and they form the great majority - are not suspicious and fearful, as many educated and more influential persons are. Propaganda has not made them accept the Bomb. We protesters, though we may have won over some of their sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, have not made them reject it. They remain profoundly, astonishingly, shockingly indifferent. — J.B. Priestley

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. — Joshua Reynolds

And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him. — Mose Allison

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Treat your entire audience with the same level of care. — Cendrine Marrouat

None of the cartoons that I ever did are basically, if they're about sex, they're about sex in sort of this, you know, this ironic way, or the way that people actually treat it. — Robert Mankoff

How I'd managed to sit still for the majority of the conversation and be controlled, without ripping my knickers off, throwing them over my head and swinging my bra around my fingers in a come and get me gesture, I had no idea. — Kristy Berridge

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it. — Lennie Tristano

But it wasn't a sentimental romance. It was more like a battered estate wagon in which they bounced along together, sometimes cheerfully amused by the same joke, other times grimly tolerating one another and determined to get where they were going. — William Kuhn

This may sound crazy, but to love someone so much that their happiness comes before yours; to find someone who wants to be with you as much as you want to be with them is a wonderfully amazing thing. The catch? It's a two-way street, a balancing act. Both must feel the same way or it falls apart. Once found, however, well, my friend, I believe you just found Heaven on Earth. — Carlos Salinas