Quotes of: Amy Keyword

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

Chuck Palahniuk

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

David Sanborn

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

Gary Lucas

Bientôt la conversation reprit entre les trois dames, que la présence de cette fille avait rendues subitement amies, presque intimes.

Guy de Maupassant

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

Hawa Abdi

Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.

Dana Brunetti

I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time.

Bill Laswell

There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!

Esperanza Spalding

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

Hank Azaria

Amy: We are only here briefly, and in this moment I want to allow myself joy.

Her

David Sumner: [after listening to Amy calling the cat] Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty, shit!

Straw Dogs

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

Justin Townes Earle

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.

Thurston Moore

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

Chris Barber

All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.

David Sanborn

I didn't try to think what my audience wanted and then make the music accordingly. I made the music and hoped that as many people liked it as possible.

David Sanborn

I try to do things that keep me interested. And play music that moves me. I like to move around and play in a lot of different ways.

David Sanborn

I never think my music isn't easy until I got to teach it to other people.

Esperanza Spalding

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

Johnny Mathis

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

Laura Mvula

My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.

Laura Mvula