Quotes of: Frankness Keyword

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

Miroslav Vitous

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Minoru Yamasaki

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

Minoru Yamasaki

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

Charlie Watts

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

Louis Sullivan

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

Charlie Hunter

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

Jimmy Rushing

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Paul Goldberger

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

Esperanza Spalding

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

Coleman Hawkins

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.

Coleman Hawkins

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

David Sanborn

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

Helmut Jahn

[describing Frank to Detective Williams] Jeffrey Beaumont: Frank... is a very sick and dangerous man.

Blue Velvet

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions.

David Rockwell

Vincent Ludwig: Drebin! Jane: Frank! Frank: You're both right.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

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